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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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P•. 5 That God would not be pleased with you in any Thing, except you make it your Care to please him well in every Thing. You will be one Day ashamed, except you have Respect to all God's Commandments, Psalm 119.6. You have not a good Conscience, except it be your Care in all Things to live honestly, Heb. 13.18. If Naaman must be excused in one Thing, to bow in the House of Rimmon, that he might not displease his Master, this is enough to spoil every thing, 2 Kings 5.18. Some will needs keep God's Good-will, and the World's too, and so will give both their turn; they will serve God at home, and conform to the World abroad; and it shall be a great thing indeed that they will not swallow, rather than lose the Good-will of Men, especially great Men. These Men have two Faces, and two Tongues; the one of ⟨p. 38⟩the Good and the other for the bad Company that they come into. Some held two first Principles, the one the common Fountain of all Good (which is God) and the other the Cause of all Evil, and they worshipped both, the good Principle for Love, and the evil for Fear. Just such a Religion are many among us now of. But let them know, whoever they are, that while they grasp all, they lose all: For God will never own Time-servers, nor Men-pleasers, for the Servants of Christ, Eph. 6.6. Gal. 1.10.
3. With Reference to your Practices. And here as ever you desire to come to this blessed Life of doing always those Things that please God, you must carefully follow these six Rules.