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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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Q. VI. When are others are for the Wages of Religion, are you for the Work? Can you say with David, I have chosen thy Precepts? Do your Hearts come off freely in this Choice? Had you rather be Holy than otherwise, if you were at your Choice? Had you rather be God's Servants, and live at his Command, than at your own Lusts? Do you count the Laws of Christ your Heritage, or rather do you no ⟨p. 11⟩count them your Bondage? Do you choose not only the Wages of Righteousness, but the Ways of Righteousness? Are God's Commandments your Delight? And are the sweetest Hours of your Lives the Hours ye spend with him? Do you never enjoy yourselves so much as when you most enjoy God? Is his Service the greatest Comfort, and is it Meat and Drink to you to do his Will, unless when you are not yourselves in the time of Temptation and Desertion? Do you make Use of holy Duties only as Men do of Physic, when they are ill at Ease, when Conscience lasheth, or Affliction stings, as it were, to conjure down the frightful Furies? Or to pacify God, that he may not hurt you? Or else do you use them as your daily Bread, and the very Staff of your Life, and Means of your Comforts?
Q. VI. When are others are for the Wages of Religion, are you for the Work? Can you say with David, I have chosen thy Precepts? Do your Hearts come off freely in this Choice? Had you rather be Holy than otherwise, if you were at your Choice? Had you rather be God's Servants, and live at his Command, than at your own Lusts? Do you count the Laws of Christ your Heritage, or rather do you no ⟨p. 11⟩count them your Bondage? Do you choose not only the Wages of Righteousness, but the Ways of Righteousness? Are God's Commandments your Delight? And are the sweetest Hours of your Lives the Hours ye spend with him? Do you never enjoy yourselves so much as when you most enjoy God? Is his Service the greatest Comfort, and is it Meat and Drink to you to do his Will, unless when you are not yourselves in the time of Temptation and Desertion? Do you make Use of holy Duties only as Men do of Physick, when they are ill at Ease, when Conscience lasheth, or Affliction stings, as it were, to conjure down the frightful Furies? Or to pacify God, that he may not hurt you? Or else do you use them as your daily Bread, and the very Staff of your Life, and Means of your Comforts?