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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. Some Holy Principles must be received and re•ined. As,
Pr. 1. That the pleasing of God is our only Business, •d our highest Blessedness. First. our only Business, •hat is it that we call or count our Business?
1. That is a Man's Business which his Liveli•od and Subsistence depends upon: The Lawyer •unts his Law his Business, and the Tradesman •unts his Trade his Business; because upon this •ir Livelihood and Subsistence depends: Brethren, ⟨p. 30⟩our Whole depends upon the Pleasing of God. Do this, and do all: Miss in this, and you mar all; please him, and you are made up for ever. If he be not pleased, you are undone for ever. How careful is the Selfish-Courtier to please his Prince? How will he crouch and Flatter? and if he can but divine what will gratify and please him, he thinks himself happy: And why? But because all his Dependence is upon his Prince's Favour; much more do we depend upon the Favour of God. Blessed is the Man whom he chooseth, Psalm 65.4. In his Favour is Life, Psalm 30.5. But woe to them that have God against them, these are perfectly miserable: Reprobate Silver shall Men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them,