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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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First, Let Religion be in your Families, not as a Matter by the by (to be minded at Leisure, when the World will give you leave) but the standing Business of the House: Let them have your Prayers as your Meals: Is there any of your Families but have time for their taking Food? Wretched Man! Canst thou find Time to eat in, and not find Time to pray in?
Secondly, Settle it upon your Hearts, that your Souls are bound up in the Souls of your Families. They are committed unto you, and if they be lost through your Neglect, will be required at your Hands. Sirs, if you do not, you shall know, that the Charge of Souls is a heavy Charge, and that the Blood of Souls is a heavy Guilt. O Man! hast thou a Charge of Souls to answer for, and dost thou not bestir thy self for them, that their Blood be not found in thy Skirts? Wilt thou do no more for immortal Souls, than thou wilt do for thy Beasts that perish? What dost thou do for thy Children and Servants? Thou providest Meat and Drink for them, agreeable to their Natures; and dost thou not the same for thy Beast? Thou givest them Medicines, and cherishest them when they be sick: And dost thou not as much for thy Swine? More particularly.
1. Let the solemn Reading of the Word and singing of Psalms, be your Family-Exercises, Isa. 34.26. Joh. 5.39 Psal. 118.15. See Christ singing with his Family, viz. His Disciples, Mat. 26.30. Luk. 6 18.