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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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Thus I have resolved the Case propounded, I will but answer an Objection, and briefly press your Duty by some Motives, and so conclude.
Object. You bind heavy Burdens; What must we be always in the traces? Surely this Severity of Religion is more than needs.
Answ. 1. Burden Man! why, it is thy Happiness. If Holiness and pleasing God be a Burden, Health is a Burden, Heaven and Happiness are Burdens.
Ans. 2. This is no other Burden than what God himself hath bound upon your Consciences, Rom. 9.20. Who art thou, O Man, that replyest against God! Have I put upon you a devised and unnecessary strictness? Or bound that Burden upon you which I will not touch with one of my Fingers? 1 Cor. 9.8. Say I this as a Man, or saith not the Law the same also? I pray you, whose words is this? Be thou in the Fear of the Lord all the Day long, 10.3. Exercise thy •f unto God, Tim. 4.7. What have I pressed but wh […] Saints have practised,