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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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Pr. That the Favour of all the World can nothing stead you, if God be not pleased with you, and by you. If there were any that could save you from his Wrath, you need not be so so licitous to please him, but if he be not pleased, we are all undone. Thou, even thou, art to be feared, and who shall stand when once thou art angry? Psalm 79.7. Isa. 43.13. When Men have flight thoughts of God's anger, and the Fear and Dread of him is not upon their Hearts, no wonder if they be not, careful to please him. You must be convinced that the displeasure of God is the most formidable thing in the World, or else you will never learn this great Lesson. Beloved, if you should pleas, Men, and all the World should be on your side what would this avail while God is your Enemy? If all Men should bless you, and speak well of you, what would this profit, when God should rise up in Judgment against you, and condemn you? It is nor at Man's Bar, but God's that you must stand: It is not at Men's Votes that you must be cast or quitted: It will not go by most Voices, but God himself is the Judge, Psal. 75.7. In his Breast it is, whether you shall live or die: If a Man were upon a Trial for his Life, what would it avail him, that all his Fellow-prisoners, and the whole Crowd about him, were for him, when the ⟨p. 37⟩whole Bench and Jury were against him? If your Lives and Estates were in Question, to whom would you go to make your Friend? The Judge of the People? Sirs, be convinced, that if God be against you, it's as bad as if God and all the World were against you, for all signifies nothing without him. Oh, whatever you do, study to get in, and keep in with him; I tell you, the Time is coming, when the Breath of Men will signify nothing; when their Condemnation will do you no good, O Man! though all the World should give thee their Hands, and subscribe thy Certificate, it should signify nothing in God's Account, or his Court. Many build their Hopes for Heaven upon the good Opinion that others have of them; But I tell thee, Man, though thou couldst carry Letters of Commendation with thee when thou diest, and all the Ministers of the Gospel should give thee their Been decessit, all would be no more than a Blank-paper, and he would not save thee a Jot the sooner, if he should find thee to have been but a secret Hypocrite, a rotten hearted Professor all the while.