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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 XV. To love your Reprovers. Herein David doth more than Ahab, see their contrary Frames, 1 Kings 22.8. Psa. 141.5.
Rule XVI. To subject all your worldly Interests to your Maker's Glory, and perform holy Duties with Holy Ends, and while others do their best Actions with carnal Aims; you must do your common and civil Actions with heavenly Aims.
Q. How may we know whether we be, and do more than others that are unsound?
I shall answer this Question by propounding eight Questions to you, beseeching you to retire to the most solemn and strict Examination, and make Conscience to give a clear Answer to these few Interrogatories, and that will resolve the Case.