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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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III. Put on a Spirit of Zeal and Activity. How wonderfully is God pleased with Phinehas's Zeal Numb 15 11, 12, 13, What great Approbation doth he manifest of him? What Attestation doth he give to him? He is so greatly pleased with his zealous Appearance for him, that he turns away his Displeasure from the whole Congregation of Israel, and overlooks their Crimson Provocations against him: On the contrary, there is nothing that God is more displeased with, than the remissness, and lifelessness, and indifference in Religion. The Luke-warm Water is not a greater Offence to the Stomach, than the Luke-warm Professor is to God: And therefore he will Spew such a one out of his Mouth, Rev. 3.16. Christians, where is your Zeal for the Lord of Hosts? Christ's redeemed must be zealous of good Works, Tit. 2. not slothful in Business, but fervent in Spirit, serving the Lord, Acts 18.24. Rom. 12, 11. Acts 26.6.7. instantly Night and Day for the hope of the Promise. Do not only that which is right in the sight of the Lord, but do it with all your Heart; the Lord loveth a willing Servant: Bestir yourselves for the Lord. Be ye followers of Christ, who went up and down doing good. Every Christian should be a common Blessing, a public Good. This is to be the Children of your Father which is in Heaven, who is good unto all, and his tender Mercies are over all his Works. And be sure the Father doth best love that Child that is most like him. A private narrow Spirit is a low and a base Spirit, unworthy of a Christian. A Catholic communicative Spirit is full of great Desires, and ⟨p. 20⟩great Designs: A large Heart set upon doing good, whose Fire, though ever hottest within, will be breaking forth of his Breast and provoking others; whose Love will not be confined to a Party, but gladly and thankfully owneth Christ wherever he sees him: This Catholic Spirit, I say, is the Glory of Religion, the Church's Blessing, and God's Delight.
III. Put on a Spirit of Zeal and Activity. How wonderfully is God pleased with Phineas's Zeal Numb 15 11, 12, 13, What great Approbation doth he manifest of him? What Attestation doth he give to him? He is so greatly pleased with his zealous Appearance for him, that he turns away his Displeasure from the whole Congregation of Israel, and overlooks their Crimson Provocations against him: On the contrary, there is nothing that God is more displeased with, than the remissness, and lifelessness, and indifference in Religion. The Luke-warm Water is not a greater Offence to the Stomach, than the Luke-warm Professor is to God: And therefore he will Spew such a one out of his Mouth,