N03796:461
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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, Gen. 24.49. Oh, for such a happy Answer as Rebecca gave to them, Gen. 24 57, 58. And they said, We will call the Damsel and enquire at her Mouth. And they called Rebecca, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this Man? And she said, I will go Oh that I had but that from you? Why should I be your Accuser, Mat. 10.14, 15. who thirst for your Salvation? Why should the passionate Pleadings and Wooing of Mercy be turned into the horrid Aggravations of your Obstinacy, and Additions to your Misery? Judge in yourselves: Do you not think their Condemnation will be be doubly deceitful, that shall still go on in their Sins, after all Endeavours to recall them? Doubtless, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, yea, for Sodom and Gomorrah, in the Day of Judgment, than for you, Mat. 11.22, 24.