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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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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.
Direct. I. Begin at Home in provoking to good. Why should God plead with you? Thou that teachest another, Teacheth thou not thyself? Rom. 2.21. Be an Example of thine own Rule, else the ⟨p. 41⟩Hypocrites Charge will come in against thee, Mat. 23.4. They bind heavy Burdens, but evil not touch them with one of their Fingers. Observe God's Order, Deut 6.6, 7. These Words which I command thee, shall be in thine Heart. That must be our first Care. And then having got our Lesson well ourselves, we must then teach it to others. And thou shalt teach them diligently to thy Children, and tell of them what thou, &c. At least if thou hast not already attained it, be sure to learn with the first; and when thou pressest a Duty, intend thyself first, and speak most to thine own Heart.
Direct. I. Begin at Home in provoking to good. Why should God plead with you? Thou that teachest another, Teacheth thou not thyself? Rom. 2.21. Be an Example of thine own Rule, else the ⟨p. 41⟩Hypocrites Charge will come in against thee,