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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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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.
5. Let the Morning and Evening-sacrifice of solemn Prayer, be daily offered up in all your Families, Psal. 92.1, 2 Exod. 30.7.8. Luke 1.9, 10. Beware they be found among the Families that call not upon God's Name, for why should there be Wrath from the Lord, upon your Families? Jer. 10.25. O miserable Families, without God in the World, that are without Family-Prayer! What! have you so many Family-Sins, Family Wants, Family Mercies? Wha• and yet no Family-Prayers? Ho• do yo• •y with all Prayer and Supplication, it you do not with ⟨p. 166⟩