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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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3. Often take an Account of the Souls under your Care, concerning their Spiritual Estates; (herein you must be Followers of Christ, Matth, 13.10, 36, 51. Mark 4.10, 11.) make Inquiry into their Conditions, insist much upon the Sinfulness and Misery of their natural Estate, and upon the Necessity of Regeneration and Conversion, in order to their Salvation. Admonish them gravely of their Sins, encourage their Beginnings. Follow them earnestly, and let them have no quiet for you, till you see them in a saving Change. This is a Duty of high Consequence, but (I am afraid) fearfully neglected. Doth not Conscience say, Thou art the Man?
4. Look to the strict Sanctifying of the Sabbath by all your Household, Exod 20.19. Lev. 23.3. Many poor Families have little Time else. O improve but your Sabbath Days as diligently in labouring for Knowledge, and doing your Master's Work, as you do the other Days in doing your own, and I doubt not but you may come to some Proficiency.
4. Look to the strict Sanctifying of the Sabbath by all your Houshold, Exod 20.19. Lev. 23.3. Many poor Families have little Time else. O improve but your Sabbath Days as diligently in labouring for Knowledge, and doing your Master's Work, as you do the other Days in doing your own, and I doubt not but you may come to some Proficiency.