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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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II. Labour for sincerity. This is not a distinct Grace from the rest, yet for Doctrine-sake I speak to it distinctly. Uprightness is the great thing that God looks after, and covenants for, Gen. 17.1. It renders all our Persons and Performances acceptable before God, Prov. 15.8. Such as are upright in the Way, are God's delight, Prov. 11 20. To these are all the Promises of Peace, Salvation, Pardon, Preservation, Blessedness, Psal. 87.10. In a Word, there is no good thing God will withhold from them that walk uprightly, Prov. 28.10. This was Noah's Praise that he was upright in his Generation. This was that which set off Job at such a Rate, that God doth so extol him for, and as it were, makes his Boast of him: The singular sincerity and integrity of his Heart. Study to be upright: that the main bent of your Hearts be to please God, and honour him; that God's interest be uppermost with you; that he hath the chief Share in you, and the Eye of the Soul be principally to him; for in this sincerity doth consist, as to your State. Let your great care be your Heart; here is a Christian's great Work. The Lord seeth not as Man seeth, for Man looketh on the outward Appearance, but the Lord looketh to the Heart; see therefore that thou look to it. Let thine Eye be chiefly there where God's Eye is. He looketh not so much what thou dost, as with what a Heart go then and do likewise. Yet be not satisfied in this, that you are upright as to your State, but labour to ⟨p. 19⟩approve yourselves in Uprightness to God in spiritual Actions. Do common, as well as spiritual Actions, with holy Ends. Much of our Lives are lost for want of this. So much is done for God; of his strange Grace, he accounts himself our Debtro. But what is done for no higher End than Self, is lost from our Account.