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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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Mr. Allein's Counsel for Personal and Family Godliness.
Beloved, I despair of ever bringing you to Salvation, without Sanctification; or possessing you of Happiness, without persuading you to Holiness. God knows, I have not the least Hope ever to see one of your Faces in Heaven, except you be converted and sanctified, and exercise yourselves unto Godliness. I beseech you, study Personal-Godliness, and Family-Godliness.
BEloved, I despair of ever bringing you to Salvation, without Sanctification; or possessing you of Happiness, without persuading you to Holiness. God knows, I have not the least Hope ever to see one of your Faces in Heaven, except you be converted and sanctified, and exercise yourselves unto Godliness. I beseech you, study Personal-Godliness, and Family-Godliness.
1. Personal-Godliness. Let it be your first Care to set up Christ in your Hearts: See that you make all your worldly Interests to stoop to him, that you be entirely and unreservedly devoted unto him. If you wilfully, and deliberately, and ordinarily harbour any Sin, you are undone, Psa. 68.21. Ezek. 18.20. See that you unfeignedly take the Law of Christ as the Rule of your Words, Thoughts and Actions; and subject you▪ whole Man, Members and Mind faithfully to him, Psal. 119.34. Rom. 6.13. If you have not a due Respect to all God's Commandments, you are unsound at Heart,