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An alarm to unconverted sinners. In a serious treatise: showing I. What conversion is…An alarm to unconverted sinners. In a serious treatise: shewing I. What conversion is…
An alarm to unconverted sinners. In a serious treatise: showing I. What conversion is not, and correcting some mistakes about it. II. What conversion is, and wherein it consisteth. III. The necessity of conversion. IV. The marks of the unconverted. V. The miseries of the unconverted. VI. Directions for conversion. VII. Motions [i.e., Motives] to conversion. : Whereunto are annexed Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolved. / By Joseph Alleine, late Minister of the Gospel at Taunton, in Somersetshire.An alarm to unconverted sinners. In a serious treatise: shewing I. What conversion is not, and correcting some mistakes about it. II. What conversion is, and wherein it consisteth. III. The necessity of conversion. IV. The marks of the unconverted. V. The miseries of the unconverted. VI. Directions for conversion. VII. Motions [i.e., Motives] to conversion. : Whereunto are annexed Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolv'd. / By Joseph Alleine, late Minister of the Gospel at Taunton, in Somersetshire.
Philadelphia: printed by B. Franklin, 1741
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Beloved, now the holy Spirit is striving wi• you: He will not always strive. Hast thou not felt thy Heart warmed by the Word, and been almost persuaded to leave off thy Sins, and come into God? Hast thou not felt some good motions in thy mind, wherein thou hast been warned of thy Danger, and told what thy careless Course would end in? It may be thou art like young Samuel, who when the Lord called once and again, he knew not the Voice of the Lord, 1 Sam. 3.6, 7. But these Motions and Items are the offers, essays, calls and strivings of the Spirit: Oh, take the Advantage of the Tide, and know the Day of thy Visitation.
Now the Lord Jesus stretcheth wide his Arms to receive you; he beseecheth you by us. How movingly, how meltingly, how pitifully, how passionately he calleth! The Church is put into a sudden ecstasy upon the sound of his Voice, The Voice of my Beloved, Cant. 2.8. Oh, wilt thou turn a deaf Ear to his Voice? It is not the Voice that breaketh the Cedars, ⟨p. 156⟩and maketh the Mountains to skip like a Calf; that shaketh the Wilderness, and divideth the Flames of Fire: It is not Sinai's Thunder, but the soft and still voice. It is not the voice of Mount Ebal, a voice of cursing and terror, but the Voice of Mount Geriz•n, the Voice of Blessing and of glad Tidings of good Things. It is not the Voice of the Trumpet nor the Noise of War; but a Message of Peace from the King of Peace, Eph. 6.2. 2 Cor. 5.18, 20. Methinks it should be with thee, as with the Spouse, My Soul failed when he spake Cant. 5 6. I may say to thee, O Sinner, as Martha to he ister, The Master is come, and he calleth for thee,