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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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4. That is a Man's Business which he hath his Maintenance for. If a Man be maintained in the Place of a School master, it is his Business to teach; If of a Soldier, it is his Business to fight. Belov• do you not know at whose Feeding you are: And do you think God keeps so many Servants to be idle, or to mind their own Designs and Pleasures? God hath cut you out every one his Work, every Man his Hands full: So much work is to be done within Doors, and so much without Doors: So much towards God, towards your Neighbour, towards your own selves, that you have no Time to be idle in. And you shall dearly reckon for it, if you will eat his Bread, and will not do his Work. And as pleasing God is our chiefest Business,
Secondly, So it is also our highest Blessedness: For Man's Happiness lies in God's Favour, Psalm 4.6. Our Happiness is in attaining the End of our Being, and therefore the great Query amongst ⟨p. 32⟩the Philosophers still was, What was the End or the Happiness of Man? now the true End of our Being is, that we may please God: for his Pleasure we are and were created Rev. 4.11. And for this End also we are new created, that we should yield ourselves unto God, Rom. 6.13. and being built up a spiritual House, should offer up to him spiritual Sacrifice acceptable through Christ, 1 Peter 2.5. This is the End of our Redemption, that we should serve not ourselves, but him in Holiness and Righteousness all the Days of our Lives. Luke 2.75. And that we should not henceforth live to ourselves, but to him that died for us, 2 Cor 5.15. 'T• the End likewise of our Justification, that our Consciences being purged, we should acceptably serve the living God. In a word, 'tis the End of our Glorification, that being translated into Heaven, we should perfectly please God, and serve him Night and Day in his Temple,