N03796:531
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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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, Psalm 18.26. If you will nor forgive others, he will not forgive you. Art thou hard to be pleased, ⟨p. 22⟩a froward Wife, a froward Master, a cross and wilful Servant? Surely God will not be pleased with thee; he will mete to you as you Measure to others, Matth. 16.24.
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,