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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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Hear, O ye Scorners! hear the Word of the Lord: Tho' you have made a sport at Godliness, and the Professors thereof; tho' you have made a Scorn of Christ, and of his Ways; yet even to you doth he call, to gather you under the Wings of his Mercy, Prov. 1.22, 23. In a Word, tho' you should be found amongst ⟨p. 160⟩the worst of that black Roll, 1 Cor. 6.9, 10. yet, upon your thorough Conversion, you shall be washed, you shall be justified, you shall be sanctified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God, V. 11.
Ho, every formal Professor, that are but a lukewarm and dough-baked Christian, and rested in the form of Godliness; give over thy halving and thy haling, be a throughout Christian, and be zealous, and repent; and then, tho' thou hadst been an Offence to Christ's Stomach, thou shalt be the Joy of his Heart, Rev. 3.16, 19, 20.
And now bear Witness that Mercy hath been offered you: I call Heaven and Earth to record against you this Day, that I have set before you Life and Death, Blessing and Cursing; therefore choose Life, that you may live, Deut. 30.19. I can but woo you and warn you, I cannot compel you to be happy; if I could I would. What Answer will you send me with to my Master? Let me speak unto you as Abraham's Servant to them; And now, if you will deal kindly and truly with my Master, tell me,