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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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Dedication: To all the Ignorant, Carnal, and Ungodly, who are Lovers of Pleasure more than God, and…
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Q 20. But if they are dead in every Point save to Carnal Interests, ask them whether they are Preachers or Priests? And if Conversion and Holiness be a needless thing, what use they themselves are of? And why the Country must be troubled with them, and pay them Tithes, and owe them Reverence? when these twenty Questions are well answered, conclude that you may be saved without Conversion.
Q 20. But if they are dead in every Point save to Carnal Interests, ask them whether they are Preachers or Priests? And if Conversion and Holiness be a needless thing, what use they themselves are of? And why the Country must be troubled with them, and pay them Tythes, and owe them Reverence? when these twenty Questions are well answered, conclude that you may be saved without Conversion.
But if, poor Soul, thou art fully convinced, and asketh, What shall I do to be converted? The Lord make thee willing, and save thee from Hypocrisy, and I will quickly tell thee in some few words.
1. Give not over sober thinking of these things, till thy Heart be changed, Psalm 119 59.