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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 III. Do nothing of Things Sacred without ⟨p. 44⟩GOD's Command: Nothing in Things civil without God's Allowance. Offer not with strange Fire; In God's Worship you must see you be well able to answer that Question, Who hath required these Things at your Hands? Here the Command must be observed, without adding or diminishing, Deut. 12.32, yet understanding this with Two Cautions.
1. Tho' Men may not stamp their invented Ceremonies with a moral Signification, nor impose, nor use them, tho' with good Intentions of edifying the People by devised Means, Mat. 15.2. as if Christ had not sufficiently provided for the edifying his People without their Devises. And tho' nothing may be used as a Part of Worship that God hath not commanded, Col. 2.23. (for it is enough to make any thing rejected of the Lord of divine Worship, if he shall say, I commanded it not, spake it not, neither came it into my Mind,) Jeremiah 7.31 and 19.5. Yet nevertheless those things that are merely circumstantial, and are in their general kind necessary, and not intended as any Part or Means of Worship, may be determined of by humane Prudence, according to the general Rules of the Word) which must always be observed, 1 Cor. 14.26 42. And for want of Understanding, many have ignorantly condemned Preaching by an Hour-glass, in a high Place, in Churches, by way of Doctrine and Use, &c. running from the one Extreme to another.
1. Tho' Men may not stamp their invented Ceremonies with a moral Signification, nor impose, nor use them, tho' with good Intentions of edifying the People by devised Means,