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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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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, Psal. 119 6. Oh, study to get the Image and Impress of Christ upon you within. Begin with your Hearts, else you would build without Foundation. Labour to get a saving Change within, or else all external Performances will be to no Purpose: And then study to show forth the Power of Godliness in the Life. Let Piety be your first and great Business: 'Tis the highest Point of Justice to give God his due. Beware that none of you be a prayerless Person; for that is a most certain Discovery of a Christless and a Graceless Person; if one that is a very Stranger to the Fear of God, Psalm. 14.4. Job. 15.4. Suffer not your Bibles to gather Du• ⟨p. 163⟩see that you converse daily with the Word, John 5.39. That Man can never lay claim to Blessedness, whose delight is not in the Law of the Lord, Psal. 1.1, 2. Let Meditation and Self-Examination be your daily Exercise.