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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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2 Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Rom. 13.
First, The red Robe of his Righteousness for Justification. The Lord will never give thee a good Look, nor a good Word but in Christ: He is a revenging, a consuming Fire out of Christ, but get on his Robes, and he will be well pleased. Enoch had his Testimony that he pleased God; but Christ had much more, that God was well pleased with Sinners, in and for him. Away with these Rags, and with these Fig-leaves. How can the Righteous Soul of God but abhor you, whilst in the menstruous Cloths of your own Righteousness? Dare not to come to God, but with Christ in your Arms. Approach him not but in the Garments of your elder Brother, lest you carry away the Curse. Joshua's filthy Garments must be put off, and Christ's Raiment put on; or else there is no standing before the bright and burning Eyes of infinite Holiness. Put on the Lord Jesus in Believing; that is, accept of him in all his Offices, with all his Inconveniences, and deliver up thyself to him, and this will entitle thee to his Merit and Righteousness: Without this, nothing will avail. If thy Head were Waters, and thine Eye a Fountain of Tears, if thou should wear thy Tongue ⟨p. 16⟩to the Roots with Praying, if thou shouldst weep an Ocean, and wash thyself in thine own Brine; all could not get out one Spot; nothing can be accepted, while thou art out of Christ; and therefore in the first Place apply thyself to him. God will accept of no Gift but off his Altar.
First, The red Robe of his Righteousness for Justification. The Lord will never give thee a good Look, nor a good Word but in Christ: He is a revenging, a consuming Fire out of Christ, but get on his Robes, and he will be well pleased. Enoch had his Testimony that he pleased God; but Christ had much more, that God was well pleased with Sinners, in and for him. Away with these Rags, and with these Fig-leaves. How can the Righteous Soul of God but abhor you, whilst in the menstruous Cloths of your own Righteousness? Dare not to come to God, but with Christ in your Arms. Approach him not but in the Garments of your elder Brother, lest you carry away the Curse. Joshua's filthy Garments must be put off, and Christ's Raiment put on; or else there is no standing before the bright and burning Eyes of infinite Holiness. Put on the Lord Jesus in Believing; that is, accept of him in all his Offices, with all his Inconveniencies, and deliver up thyself to him, and this will intitle thee to his Merit and Righteousness: Without this, nothing will avail. If thy Head were Waters, and thine Eye a Fountain of Tears, if thou should wear thy Tongue