N03796:569
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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O Man, doth not thy Soul say, Happy is the People that is in such a Case; Will not thy Condition be most blessed, when God shall be thus infinitely tender of thee, to take all the Kindnesses done to thee, as done to himself? Matth 25.45. And all the Injuries done to thee, as Affronts to himself, Acts 2.4. This is the happy Case of his Favourites.
Secondly, Every thing you do shall be found upon your Account with God. Brethren, are you Believers, or are you not? Do you believe the Immortality of the Soul, and the Life to come, or do you not? the Ways of the most do declare them to be real Infidels, tho' professed Christians. If you think there be an Eternal State to come, will it not be your highest Wisdom to be providing for it, and laying up what possible you can, that you may inherit it in the other World. Will not every wise Man, that knows, he is shortly to be removed into another Country, be careful to transport all that he can, that he may enjoy it at his coming? Beloved, if you do believe indeed, that you must be forever in another World, will it not be your best course to be doing that, the Fruit whereof you shall enjoy forever? Were not he a Mad man, that having but a very short Term upon a Living, should yet go to building and planting there, when he had Land of Inheritance to build upon? Infinite is the Mischief that comes of Self •eeking and Self-pleasing.
Secondly, Every thing you do shall be found upon your Account with God. Brethren, are you Believers, or are you not? Do you believe the Immortality of the Soul, and the Life to come, or do you not? the Ways of the most do declare them to be real Infidels, tho' professed Christians. If you think there be an Eternal State to come, will it not be your highest Wisdo• to be providing for it, and laying up what possible you can, that you may inherit it in the other World. Will not every wise Man, that knows, he is shortly to be removed into another Country, be careful to transport all that he can, that he may enjoy it at his coming? Beloved, if you do believe indeed, that you must be forever in another World, will it not be your best course to be doing that, the Fruit whereof you shall enjoy forever? Were not he a Mad man, that having but a very short Term upon a Living, should yet go to building and planting there, when he had Land of Inheritance to build upon? Infinite is the Mischief that comes of Self eeking and Self-pleasing.