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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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VII. Maintain a Spirit of Resolution and Constancy in the Ways of God, Heb. 10.38. This was the Renown of the three Worthies, Daniel 3. They feared not the Fierceness of Nebuchadnezzar's Rage, nor yet the Fire of the Furnace: All the World could not make them bow; and how gloriously did God own them, and miraculously evidence his Pleasure in them: Stand your Ground. Resolve to live and die by substantial Godliness. Cleave to the Lord with full Purpose of Heart. Let no Difficulties make you change your Station: Then shall you be an Honour and a Pleasure to the God that made you. Well then, would you know what Frame of Heart is pleasing to God? Why, this Humble, Sincere, Zealous Active Frame, this Believing, Meek, Self-denying, resolved Frame, this is the Frame that is well pleasing in the sight of GOD.
Secondly, As to your Performances, more briefly that those may please God, you must heedfully look to these five things.
1. That they be done by the right Rule; which is God's Word: You must not follow the Imaginations of your own Hearts, Numb. 15.39. You must not do that which is right in your own Eyes; in all Sacred-Actions, you must have God's Command to warrant you. You may not offer to God of that, of which you are not able to say, Thou requirest these things at our Hands, Isa. 1.12. In all civil Actions you must have God's Allowance. Be sure he will never accept that which his Word condemns; under pain of God's Displeasure, dare not to set your Hands to what the Word forbids.