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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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VI. Get a Spirit of Self denial. God is then pleased best, when Self is displeased most. When we can be content to be empty, content to be abased, that God might be honoured, and with the Holy Baptist, are willing to be eclipsed by Christ: willing to decrease that he may increase; counting ourselves no Losers, whilst his Interest is a Gainer, John 3.29, 30. rejoicing that we are made low for Christ's Advancement; this is well-pleasing unto God; how greatly was he pleased with Solomon's Self-denying Choice, and gives him his Asking, throwing in Riches, and Honour into the Bargain? 1 Kings 3.10, 11, 12. Strange was Abraham's Self-denial. What? to sacrifice with his own Hand, the whole Hope of his Family? the Heir of Promise! the Child of his Years! a Son! and only Son! wh•n his Life was bound up in the Lad's Life! Was ever Mortal thus put to it? But Abraham shall not be a Loser. God gives him a Testimony from Heaven, blesses him, blesses his Seed, blesses all Nations in him, Gen. 22.15, 16, 17, 18. Wonderful was Moses his Self denial, but more wonderful was his Acceptation and Reward, Heb. 11.24. None like Moses, Deut. 34.20 God preferreth him in another manner than Pharaoh could. He must speak with him Face to Face, as a Man with his Friend; his Word shall be as it were a Law with God. Speak for whom he will, they shall be spared, though they seem to be devoted to Destruction. But speak against him who duist, he shall be sure to bear his Iniquity, Numb. 12.8. Forget Self: Renounce thine own Wisdom, thine own Worthiness, thine own Will: Bite in thy Passions, curb thine Appetite; bridle thy Tongue: This do, and thou shalt be gently accepted, and shall find that God's Favour will infinitely reward ⟨p. 23⟩thee, for all the murmuring Oppositions, and discontents of thy Flesh, which will be ready to be impatient to have the Reins held so hard.