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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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Again, In religious Actions let God be All. Here Self (I mean carnal Self) must be shut out, otherwise ⟨p. 47⟩this dead Fly will spoil the Box of most precious Ointment. 'Tis true, self will be crowding in, but you must knock it down carefully; otherwise, if this be the predominant Ingredient, all your Duties will be but lost Labour. What is more pleasing to God than Prayer? This is Incense before him, Psalm 1.1, 2. What more delightful than Alms? This is a Sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing unto him, Phil. 4.8. How happy a Testimony had Cornelius? Thy Prayers and Alms are come up as a Memorial before God, Acts 10.4. Yet when Self is predominant in those Duties, Prayers, Alms, &c. are all Lost, Matth. 6.7. and 23.5.
Again, In religious Actions let God be All. Here Self (I meane carnal Self) must be shut out, otherwise ⟨p. 47⟩this dead Fly will spoil the Box of most precious Ointment. 'Tis true, self will be crowding in, but you must knock it down carefully; otherwise, if this be the predominant Ingredient, all your Duties will be but lost Labour. What is more pleasing to God than Prayer? This is Incense before him, Psalm 1.1, 2. What more delightful than Alms? This is a Sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing unto him, Phil. 4.8. How happy a Testimony had Conelius? Thy Prayers and Alms are come up as a Memorial before God, Acts 10.4. Yet when Self is predominant in those Duties, Prayers, Alms, &c. are all Lost, Matth. 6.7