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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 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.
V. Put on the Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit; this is in the sight of God of great Price: Study to be (1 Peter 3.3.) like your Father, slow to Anger, ready to forgive, Psalm 130.1, 8. forgetting Injuries, loving Enemies, requiting Ill-will with Kindness, Ill words with Courtesies, Neglects with Benefits; and if any wrong you, do him Kindness the sooner; so shall you bear his Likeness, and be his Delight: And know ye that are of unmortified Passions, and unbridled Tongues, God hath an especial hatred and displeasure against a Froward Heart, and a Froward Tongue, Prov. 3.32.1.20.1.12.8.12. Oh seek Meekness: How can the Holy Dove rest in a wrathful Heart? Christ is a Lamb of Meekness, how can he take Pleasure in an unquiet and contentious Spirit! Verily, with the Froward, he will show himself froward,