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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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Rule VII. To be good when we shall be evil spoken of for our Labour. A Pharisee will do those Duties that will gain Applause with Man, but to take up with despised Duties, disgraceful Duties, and with Davia to be religious, when it shall render him vile: This is to do more than others. The Philosopher could say, It is noble indeed for a Man to do Well, when he knows he shall bear Ill for it. To take up Religion when every one kicks it off, to stand up alone with Luther for the Truth, when the whole World is gone a Wandering after the Whore. To have his Hand against every Man, and to be for Christ with Athanasius, against the whole Universe: This is indeed to do some singular Thing.
Rule VIII. To strike in with God's Interest when it is falling. To join ourselves with the Lord's People, when it is the weakest, to espouse their Interest with Moses, when they were in deep Affliction, Heb 11.25, 26. To own ourselves to be some of them undauntedly, when this Way is every where spoken against, this is to tread Antipodes to the Course of this World.
Rule IX. To be most cruel to the Sin that is naturally most dear. The Hypocrite hide▪ his sweet Morsel under his Tongue, he spares as it were the ⟨p. 6⟩fattest of the Cattle, he saith, The Lord pardon […] Servant concerning this Thing. But when a M•n shall off with his right Hand, out with his right Eye, serve his Absalom, as Joab did, when he took three Darts and thrust thorough his Heart: This is to do more than others. The sincere Christian is mo• angry with the Sin of his Temper, against this he aims the Arrows of all his Prayers. He keeps him from his Iniquity, he drives the whole Herd of Sin before him, but especially shoots at, singles out this to run it down.