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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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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.
1. The real change of Sanctification: I call this a real change, because by this there is a real change ensuing of new Qualities and Dispositions, making him of proud, humble, of carnal, spiritual and heavenly, &c.
2. The Relative Change of Justification: I call this a relative Change, because there is not a real Change in a Man's Nature, but in his Condition, making him to stand in a new Relation to the Law, with Reference to which he was before guilty and condemned, but now the Law pronounces the same Man clear and acquitted, and this not for any Righteousness infused into him, but for the Satisfaction and Payment of another laid down for him; Satisfaction there must be, and Righteousness must be tendered, or else God cannot be at Peace. We have nothing to pay, Luke 7.49. Oh Sinner, away to Christ for it; hide thee in the Clefts of that Rock; run to the Fountain opened for Sin and Uncleanness. Appear not before God, but in the Robe of Christ's Righteousness. He sends you to ⟨p. 28⟩Jesus, as he did them to Job, Chap, 42. last. Go to my Servant Job. be shall pray for you, him will I accept: Get out of yourselves: Flee to Christ, labour to be found in him, else all your Endeavours in rinsing and washing yourselves will be to no Effect.
2. The Relative Change of Justification: I call this a relative Change, because there is not a real Change in a Man's Nature, but in his Condition, making him to stand in a new Relation to the Law, with Reference to which he was before guilty and condemned, but now the Law pronounces the same Man clear and acquitted, and this not for any Righteousness infused into him, but for the Satisfaction and Payment of another laid down for him; Satisfaction there must be, and Righteousness must be tendered, or else God cannot be at Peace. We have nothing to pay,