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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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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, Rev. 7.15. and 22.3. So that the Pleasing of God, is the whole End or whole Happiness of Man, Eccles. 12. And this will be clear, because we do then promote ourselves most, when we please God best. For by this you shall have this two-fold Advantage.
First, You shall be the Favourite of God. O glorious Promotion! Haman thought himself no little Man when he was on Ahafuerus Right-Hand, and yet he was at length but preferred to the Gallows,