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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. We may not think that God's Ordinance remaining for substance may be forsaken, because of some Faults of the Administrators, or in the Way of their Administration. The Administering of God's Ordinances belong not to the People, but to the Minister:: And if he fail in his Duty by Administering them in a way that is not, and is less edifying,1 it is my Grief, but his Sin. Hophni and Phinehas were corrupt in their Lives, and brought in much Corruption ⟨p. 45⟩and Rudeness into the Service of God. Yet Elkannah and Hannah, with others of the Godly, did nevertheless attend God's Worship and Sanctuary, 1 Samuel 1.2 much Corruption was crept in, both into the Doctrine and Worship, and Lives of the Administrators of the Church of the Jews.2 Yet our Saviour (though he still cried down the Corruptions, and would not join in them) never prohibited Communion with them in God's Worship, but enjoins it, Matthew 5.24. Mark 4. Luke 5 4. and practise it, both he, and his Parents, and Apostles, Luke 2.21, 22, 24, 39, 41, 46 Acts 21.23, 24, 26
2. We may not think that God's Ordinanee remaining for substance may be forsaken, because of some Faults of the Administrators, or in the Way of their Administration. The Administring of God's Ordinanees belong not to the People, but to the Minister:: And if he fail in his Duty by Administering them in a way that is not, and is less edyfying,1 it is my Grief, but his Sin. Hophni and Phineas were corrupt in their Lives, and brought in much Corruption