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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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I. Be clothed with Humility, 1 Pet. 5.5. This is a Garment which must be put on, or else you cannot be accepted or saved, Mat. 18.3. Here is the Dress that you must come to God in: He must be served in humility of Mind, Acts 20.14. You must humble yourselves to walk with him, Mic. 6.8. Humility is a plain, but yet a comely Garment: This Grace doth eminently honour God; and therefore God doth put a peculiar honour upon, and manifest a most special Delight in this: Of all the Men in the World, this is the Man that God will look unto; even he that is pure, and of a contrite Spirit, that trembleth at his Word, Isaiah 66.2. Though he be the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth Eternity, whose Name is holy: From whence the trembling Soul is ready to conclude, that surely such a fearful Majesty cannot but despise him; such sin-hating Purity cannot but abhor him; yet he will lay, Isaiah 47.15, aside his Majesty, and bear with Man's impurity, and condescend to most familiar and constant Communion and Cohabitation with his poor Dust, when contrite at his Feet, and prostrate in Humility: If thou wouldest be accepted of God, come as Benhadad's Servants to the King of Israel, with a Rope about thy Neck, and Ashes on thy Head, 1 Kings 20.32. think meanly on thy self, and God will honour thee, 1 Sam. 2.30. Put thy self in the lowest Rooms, and God will set thee higher: Be little in thine own Eyes, and thou shalt be high in his: A proud Heart and a proud Look is with God the first-born of Abomination: As ever thou wouldst have God well pleased with thee, be throughly displeased with thyself. If thou dost throughly loath thy self, God doth love thee, if thou abhorrest thyself, God delighteth in thee: Be angry with thy self, and the Almighty ⟨p. 18⟩