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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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Some corrupt Principles must be unlearned. As 1. That it is enough if we serve God on the Lord's Day, and we may serve ourselves all the rest of the Week. Tho' God hath reserved one Day in seven wholly for his immediate Service, which is therefore in a peculiar Sense called the Lord's Day, yet we must know that every Day is His, and that he hath not allowed us one Hour nor Inch of Time, but only for His Service. Indeed he hath Service of more sorts than one; but we must know that the Business of our ordinary Affairs, if rightly done, is a Serving of the Lord Christ, Col. 3, 24 God is as truly served by you in the working Days Labour, as the Sabbath-days rest, if you do it in a right Manner, and to holy Ends.
There is a Generation whose Religion is but a Sunday's Religion, which they put on and off with their Sunday's Clothes, and then they think God is fairly served for the Week; altho' God knows, that little they do then is but poorly done neither. Never think God will accept it at thy Hands, when thou livest six Days to the World and thyself, for One that thou spendest for him. This shows thee to be under the mortified Power of Self-love, and not to be the Lord's, for none of us liveth to himself, Rom. 14.7. You must remember, that you are but to learn upon the Sabbath, how to serve God all the Week; and not think when the Lord's Day is ended, his Work is done.
There is a Generation whose Religion is but a Sunday's Religion, which they put on and off with their Sunday's Clothes, and then they think God is fairly served for the Week; altho' God knows, that little they do then is but poorly done neither. Never think God will accept it at thy Hands, when thou livest six Days to the World and thyself, for One that thou spendest for him. This shews thee to be under the mortified Power of Self-love, and not to be the Lord's, for none of us liveth to himself, Rom. 14.7. You must remember, that you are but to learn upon the Sabbath, how to serve God all the Week; and not think when the Lord's Day is ended, his Work is done.