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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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You are eternal Losers by it: God will say, You have your Reward, Matth. 6.5. Something you may have in Hand, but the Eternal Reward is lost. Brethren, I am ambitious for you that what you do, you should do for ever, that all should meet you in the other World, and that there you should reap the Everlasting Fruit of what ⟨p. 34⟩you are doing now. A wise Builder will build forever, and not only that which shall last for a Day, o• for a Year. O that you would be wise Builders. Do all for God, and you shall have eternal Advantage. Learn but this Lesson, To set your selves in all things to please God, and you will be promoting and advancing yourselves in all that ever you do, always laying up a Treasure in Heaven, still adding to the Heap. And O what Riches will you come to, when by every Day and every Hour, and every Action you are Gainers? For God will not let the least thing that is done for him, no not a Cup of cold Water, go without an everlasting Reward, Matth. 10.42. nor your Labour be in vain, 1 Cor. 15.58.
Pr. •. That when you have done all, if God be not pleased, you have done nothing. Settle it upon your Hearts, that all is in vain that is not done for God: when you do not please God, you do not profit yourselves. When Men offer never so richly and freely, if not in such a manner as is pleasing to God, all is but a vain Oblation, Isa. 1.13. If Men will do more than ever God required, and be zealous in Things that God hath not commanded, 'tis but in vain that they Worship him, Matth. 15.9. Beloved, so much time as you have lived to yourselves, you have lived in vain, because it was quite besides your End. O it is a Heart-cutting Consideration to a tender Christian to think of this, that when his Life is so short, and Time so little in all, yet he must be fain to cut off so much! Why Man, so many Hours must thou cut off from thy Days, and so many Years from thy Life, as thou hast lived not to God, but to thyself; they are all lost as to the Ends of Life and Time. If on Repentance thou be forgiven, thou art not rewarded for them.