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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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2. That they be done to the right End, which is God's Glory: How damnably did the Pharisees •r•? How miserably did Jehu miscarry? And both in Acts for the Matter commanded, for want of aiming at this End.
3. That they proceed from right Principles, (1.) Faith, without which, it is impossible to please God. Prayer will not avail, except it be the Prayer of Faith, Heb. 11.6. We believe, and therefore we speak. (2) Love: If we should give our Goods to the Poor, and Bodies to the Fire, and not from Love, it would profit us nothing; where the slavish Fear of Hell only, or of the Lashes of Conscience, or the Love of Man's Praise, carries Men to Duties; where any other carnal Principle is Predominant in the Act, it cannot please God. (3) Fear: We cannot serve God acceptably, without Reverence and godly Fear, (no slavish Fear) The Lord taketh Pleasure in them that fear him, in them that hope in his Mercy. Observe the happy mixture; where these two are conjoined, that is a true filial Fear, Saith David, I will come to thy House in the Multitude of thy Mercy; (Behold his Faith) and in thy Fear will I worship toward thy holy Temple; there is his Fear with Faith) Faith without Fear were bold Presumption: Fear without Faith is sinful Despair; join them together and God is well pleased.
3. That they proceed from right Principles, (1.) Faith, without which, it is impossible to please God. Prayer will not avail, except it be the Prayer of Faith, Heb. 11.6. We believe, and therefore we speak. (2) Love: If we should give our Goods to the Poor, and Bodies to the Fire, and not from Love, it would profit us nothing; where the slavish Fear of Hell only, or of the Lashes of Conscience, or the Love of Man's Praise, carries Men to Duties; where any other carnal Principle is Predominant in the Act, it cannot please God. (3) Fear: We cannot serve God acceptably, without Reverence and godly Fear, (no slavish Fear) The Lord taketh Pleasure in them that fear him, in them that hope in his Mercy. Observe the happy mixture; where these two are conjoyned, that is a true filial Fear, Saith David, I will come to thy House in the Multitude of thy Mercy; (Behold his Faith) and in thy Fear will I worship toward thy holy Temple; there is his Fear with Faith) Faith without Fear were bold Presumption: Fear without Faith is sinful Despair; joyn them together and God is well pleased.