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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 XI. To love that best and choose that soonest which doth cross the Flesh most. The godly Man's Rule is to take the Self-denial aside, so he be sure it be safe; when others Study is to please themselves, his is to curb himself: The Life of others is a Flesh-pleasing, his a Self denying Life; others Joy is, when they can gratify themselves, his, when he can get victory over himself.
Rule XII. To be most hot in that wherein Self i• least concerned. Paul is meek as a Lamb under personal Injuries, 1 Cor. 4.12. Acts 7.16. But how is his Spirit stirred when God is dishonoured? A Man of Understanding is of a cool Spirit, that is in his own Concern; but Moses the Meek waxes hot with Indignation at the Sight of the Calf. To be hot and forward in those Duties where the Flesh's Interest is concerned, is to do more than Jehu, 2 Kings 10.16, 20.
Rule XIII. To make a true Conscience of the least Sins, but most Conscience of the greatest. In one of these will the Hypocrite be found tardy. It may be he will fly from open Sins, and startle at gross staring Sins; but of little Sins he makes little Conscience; this he allows of, and connives at. Or else he will be very tender of little Things, scruple the Plucking the Ears of Corn on the Sabbath-day, or the Curing of the Sick, and strain at the Gnat; when he will in other Things swallow a Camel, devour Widows Houses. The Sincere will indulge no Sin; grieves for, groans under, cries out feelingly against his very Infirmities; but most dreads what God most hates.