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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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A Necessary Case on 1 Thess 4.1.
Q. WHAT may and must a Christian be, and do, that he may please God:
A. To your Pleasing of God something is necessary, as to your Persons and Estates, and something as to your Performance and Acts.
First, As to your Persons or Estates, it is necessary in general, that you be in a State of Reconciliation with God: If you would walk worthy of the Lord unto All-pleasing, you must first be Friends with him, for how can two walk together except they be agreed? Get the Controversy taken up between God and thee, and then thou shalt with Levi, walk with God in Peace. Labour to get the Breaches made up, to have the Enmity slain, to have divine Displeasure removed. Till thy Pardon ⟨p. 14⟩be obtained, and thy Peace made, nothing thou canst do will please God, he will be angry with thy Person, and angry with thy Prayers. What a fart Message is that to impenitent Sinners, Mal 1.10. God cannot take Pleasure in their Persons; I have no Pleasure in you, saith the Lord of Hosts, nor in any of their Performances; neither will I accept an Offering at your Hand: He professeth that his Soul had no Delight in them, and tells them that they are unto him as a Vessel wherein there is no Pleasure,