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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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Dedication: To all the Ignorant, Carnal, and Ungodly, who are Lovers of Pleasure more than God, and…
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4. Sin no more wilfully, but forbear that which thou mayest forbear, Isa. 55.7.
5. Away from Temptations, Occasions of Sin and Evil Company, and be a Companion of the Humble, Holy, Heavenly, and Sincere, Psalm 119.155.
6. Wait on God's Spirit, in the diligent, constant use of his own: Read, Hear, Meditate, Pray: Pray hard •or that Grace that must convert thee: wait thus, and thou shalt not wait in vain, Psalm 29. and 37 34. and 69.6.
Pity, O Lord, and persuade these Souls: Let not Christ's Blood, his Doctrine, his Example, his Spirit be lost unto them, and they lost for ever. Let not Heaven be as no Heaven to them, while they dream and dote on the shadows of the world. And O save this Land from the greater Destruction than all our late Plagues and Flames, and Divisions, which our sins and thy threatenings make s fear. O Lord, in thee have we trus, let us never be confounded.