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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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Too many live as if Religion lay all in praying and hearing, holy Conference, and the like, forgetting that pure Religion and undefiled is this, To visit the Fatherless and the Widow in their afflictions, James 1.17. The other should be so done, as that this should not be left undone. You make Conscience of being just and true, and faithful, but do you not forget to win upon others by your Kindness and Affableness? As if it were not written in your BIBLES: Be pitiful, be courteous, having Compassion one of another, 1 Peter 3.8. Say not, it is not my Nature? What doth Grace serve for, but to correct the Evils of your Temper? Is not ours a Religion of Self-denial? Do not the Rules of our Religion enjoin us to be followers of whatsoever is lovely and of good Report, and may render Religion amiable to the World? Phil 4.8.
Too many live as if Religion lay all in praying and hearing, holy Conference, and the like, forgetting that pure Religion and undefiled is this, To visit the Fatherless and the Widow in their afflictions, James 1.17. The other should be so done, as that this should not be left undone. You make Conscience of being just and true, and faithful, but do you not forget to win upon others by your Kindness and Affableness? As if it were not written in your BIBLES: Be pitiful, be courteous, having Compassion one of another, 1 Peter 3.8. Say not, it is not my Nature? What doth Grace serve for, but to correct the Evils of your Temper? Is not ours a Religion of Self-denial? Do not the Rules of our Religion enjoyn us to be followers of whatsoever is lovely and of good Report, and may render Religion amiable to the World? Phil 4.8.
Rule II. Use a wise Fore cast, that every Duty may fall in its Time and Order, and every Work may have its Room. It is not enough to do God's Work, but it must be done in his Order. That which in itself is good and necessary, may be so ill-timed, as to become a Sin: It is a Duty to tell your Brother of his Sin: But to rip up in your Passion, or to be retorting upon him when he is Christianly admonishing you, is a Sin. Your worldly Business must not shut out Religion, nor religious Duties take you so up, as to neglect your Callings, but every Duty must have its Place. But for the doing all in God's Order, take these five Directions.