N03796:468
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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But Piety, without Charity, is but the Half of Christianity, or rather impious Hypocrisy. We may not divide the Tables: See therefore that you do justly and love Mercy, and let Equity and Charity run like an even Thread, throughout all your Dealings. Be you temperate in all things, and let Chastity and Sobriety be your undivided Companions. Let Truth and Purity, Seriousness and Modesty, Heaviness and Gravity, be the constant Ornaments of your Speech. Let Patience and Humility, Simplicity and Sincerity shine out in all the Parts of your Conversations. See that you forget and forgive Wrongs, and requite them with Kindness, as you would be found the Children of the Most High. Be merciful in your Censures, and put the most favourable Construction upon your Brethren's Carriage, that their Actions will reasonably bear. Be slow in promising, punctual in fulfilling. Let Meekness and Innocency, Affableness, Yieldingness and Courtesy commend your Conversations to all Men. Let none of your Reflections want that Love and Loyalty, that Reverence and Duty, that Tenderness, Care and Vigilancy, which their several Capacities call for. This is throughout Godliness. I charge you before the Most High God, that none of you be found a Swearer or a Liar, or a lover of evil Company, or a Scoffer, or Malicious, or Covetous, or a Drunkard, or a Glutton, unrighteous in Dealing, unclean in his Living, or a Quarreller, or a Thief, or a Backbiter, or a Railer: For I denounce unto you, from the Living God, that Destruction and Damnation is the End of all such, Prov. 13.20. Jam. 5.12. Rev. 21.8. 1 Cor. 6, 9, 10. Gal. 5.19, 20, 21.
But Piety, without Charity, is but the Half of Christianity, or rather impious Hypocrisy. We may not divide the Tables: See therefore that you do justly and love Mercy, and let Equity and Charity run like an even Thread, throughout all your Dealings. Be you temperate in all things, and let Chastity and Sobriety be your undivided Companions. Let Truth and Purity, Seriousness and Modesty, Heaviness and Gravity, be the constant Ornaments of your Speech. Let Patience and Humility, Simplicity and Sincerity shine out in all the Parts of your Conversations. See that you forget and forgive Wrongs, and requite them with Kindness, as you would be found the Children of the Most High. Be merciful in your Censures, and put the most favourable Construction upon your Brethren's Carriage, that their Actions will reasonably bear. Be slow in promising, punctual in fulfilling. Let Meekness and Innocency, Affableness, Yieldingness and Courtesie commend your Conversations to all Men. Let none of your Reflections want that Love and Loyalty, that Reverence and Duty, that Tenderness, Care and Vigilancy, which their several Capacities call for. This is throughout Godliness. I charge you before the Most High God, that none of you be found a Swearer or a Lyat, or a lover of evil Company, or a Scoffer, or Malicious, or Covetous, or a Drunkard, or a Glutton, unrighteous in Dealing, unclean in his Living, or a Quarreller, or a Thief, or a Backbiter, or a Railer: For I denounce unto you, from the Living God, that Destruction and Damnation is the End of all such,