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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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2. In reproving Evil; otherwise thou wilt be branded for an Hypocrite, Matth. 7 5. First cast the Beam out of thine own Eye. We may not think, as many do mistakenly, that we must not reprove another when we are guilty of the same Sin: But we must in such a Case be sure to cast the first Stone at ourselves. Be soonest angry with thyself, and more severe to thine own Sins, than any others. 'Tis strange to see the great Censoriousness of Professors to others, and how tender they are of their own Corruptions, and impatient of Reproof. Reader, fear and avoid this Sin.
Direct. 2 Let God be first served. L•t God have the first of thy Thoughts, the first of the Day, the first of thy Strength: How heavily is God displeased with the profane Priests, because they will serve themselves first with Sacrifices before him, 2 Sam. 2.15, 16. And it is the Holy Council that one gives, hold the Door of thy Heart fast against the World in the Morning, till thy Heart hath been first in Heaven, and seasoned and fortified from thence, against the Temptations that thou art like to meet with as soon as thou comest down below. Indeed, all must be done as God's Service, but so as that his immediate Service must be done first. It is the Council of several Heathens, That all undertakings should be begun with Prayer. Saith Arrays, let us begin with God. And ⟨p. 42⟩the very Mahometans began their Books always as Men do use to do their Wills, In the Name of GOD.
Direct. 2 Let God be first served. L•t God have the first of thy Thoughts, the first of the Day, the first of thy Strength: How heavily is God displeased with the prophane Priests, because they will serve themselves first with Sacrifices before him,