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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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Live by Faith in Prosperity: Tho' thou hast the World about thee, let it not be above thee, keep it at thy Feet, use it as thy Servant: Be much in the views of Glory and Contemplation of Eternity: Buy as tho' thou possessest not, rejoice as tho' thou rejoicest not, love as tho' thou lovest not, use this ⟨p. 21⟩World as not abusing it. It is but a Fashion, not a Substance, and that which passeth away, 1 Cor. 7.30, 31. Use it therefore with mortified Affections, and prove the Sincerity of your Faith by the Victory over your inordinate Content and Delight in, and Desires after, and Cares for, the Things of this World, 1 John 5.4.
Live by Faith in Adversity: Weep as tho' thou wept not, enduring the Cross, and despising the Shame, as looking unto Jesus, Heb. 12.2 Heb. 11.26. accounting Christ's Reproaches your Riches, his Shame your Glory, Acts 5.41. Compare these light Afflictions with the weight of Glory, 2 Cor. 4.17. Rom. 8.18. Ply your Hearts with the Promises; count if you can get the Riches that are laid up in them; roll yourselves upon the Lord, Psalms 37.1. and know that your Heavenly Father hath no greater Delight, than to see his Children trust him with Confidence, when all visible Helps are out of sight, and he seems to be their Enemy, Joh. 13.15