N03796:509
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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He is not only a good Christian, but a good Neighbour, not only a good Man, but a good Husband, a good Master, a dutiful Child, a diligent and faithful Servant, a good Subject: In a Word, he makes a great Conscience of discharging the Duties of his Relations among Men. (2) When others stick in Externals, do you look to the spiritual Part of every Command, and principally mind the Inwards and Vitals of Religion? Do you not only make Conscience of performing Duties, but do you carefully look to the Manner of performing of them, and the Ends for which we do perform them? Do you not only make Conscience of open, but of secret Sins? Do you abound above all in secret Duties? Do you keep a Watch upon your Hearts, and make Conscience, not only of the gross Acts of Sin, but even of sinful Thoughts, Inclinations and Desires; and are grieved even with your very Infirmities, and the corrupt Dispositions of your Natures, which you cannot help, tho' you would?
He is not only a good Christian, but a good Neighbour, not only a good Man, but a good Husband, a good Master, a dutiful Child, a diligent and faithful Servant, a good Subject: In a Word, he makes a great Conscience of discharging the Duties of his Relations among Men. (2) When others stick in Externals, do you look to the spiritual Part of every Command, and principally mind the Inwards and Virals of Religion? Do you not only make Conscience of performing Duties, but do you carefully look to the Manner of performing of them, and the Ends for which we do perform them? Do you not only make Conscience of open, but of secret Sins? Do you abound above all in secret Duties? Do you keep a Watch upon your Hearts, and make Conscience, not only of the gross Acts of Sin, but even of sinful Thoughts, Inclinations and Desires; and are grieved even with your very Infirmities, and the corrupt Dispositions of your Natures, which you cannot help, tho' you would?
Q. II. When others have their Reserves in Closing with Christ, do you give up all to him entirely? Have you taken Christ not Hand over Head, but deliberately, ⟨p. 10⟩understandingly, sitting down first, and counting the Cost? Have you not secret Reserves for your own Ease, Safety, Estates, Esteem, on some beloved Sin? Have you, upon solemn Consideration, accepted Christ as the Lord your Righteousness, for better, for worse, for all Changes of Times and Conditions, to run all Hazards with him, and to take your Lot with him, fall as it will?