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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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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, 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 Arra•s, let us begin with God. And ⟨p. 42⟩the very Mahometons began their Books always as Men do use to do their Wills, In the Name of GOD.