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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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1. The Holiness of God: For he is not a God that hath pleasure in Iniquity: He heareth no Sinner: The Foolish shall not stand in his Sight. He hateth all the workers of Iniquity, Psal. 5.4, 5. John 9.31. God can no more take Pleasure in the unsanctified, than we in Swine or Serpents.
2. The Justice of God: For he will by no means clear the Guilty, Exod. 34, 7. Could we have inherent Holiness in us; in our unpardoned State, yet Justice could not but be infinitely offended while Guilt lieth unremoved; as you may see in Christ, for tho' he were perfectly holy, yet being under the Guilt of our Sins imputed to him, the severity of God's Justice broke out against him.
Now, Man being naturally an Offence both to the Holiness and Justice of God, there must of necessity pass upon him in order to his pleasing God, this two fold Change.