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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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Now, my Brethren, let me beseech you to be the conscientious Practitioners of this great Lesson. Study to do always those Things that are pleasing unto God. Oh that I knew, how but to engage you; that I co• but get you to set these Rules before you, all the Days of your Lives, for your Practice! 'Tis not enough that you give the Hearing, and […] the Preacher, and approve the Doctrine. B• […] what will you do? Too many of my Hea• […] Ezekiel's, Chapter 33.32. What say you Bre•, will you learn with me? O that I might •ad you on to a thorough Acquaintance with the St•tness and Power of Religion, and that holy Frame that will be God's Delight, and your Felicity. Brethren, what seek I for? God knows this is my Ambition, that I may but help you on in the way of Holiness. I would not that you should be such bad Proficients as to be always of the lower Form, and keep on merely in a dull and barren Course: My Desire for you is, that you should not be Shrubs, but Cedars of tall Growth, choice Experience, singular Communion, walking with God, shining to the Conviction of the World. Will you let me but prevail with you in so good a Design? Why should you mourn at the last and say, How have I hated Instruction and my Heart despised Reproof? I have not obeyed the Voice of my Teachers, nor inclined mine Ears to them that instructed me, Prov. 4.11, 12, 13. That I may invite you to this holy Cou• consider,
Now, my Brethren, let me beseech you to be the conscientious Practitioners of this great Lesson. Study to do always those Things that are pleasing unto God. Oh that I knew, how but to engage you; that I co• but get you to set these Rules before you, all the Days of your Lives, for your Practice! 'Tis not enough that you give the Hearing, and 〈…〉 the Preacher, and approve the Doctrine. B• 〈…〉 what will you do? Too many of my Hea• Ezekiel's, Chapter 33.32. What say you Bre, will you learn with me? O that I might ad you on to a thorough Acquaintance with the Sttness and Power of Religion, and that holy Frame that will be God's Delight, and your Felicity. Brethren, what seek I for? God knows this is my Ambition, that I may but help you on in the way of Holiness. I would not that you should be such bad Proficients as to be always of the lower Form, and keep on merely in a dull and barren Course: My Desire for you is, that you should not be Shrubs, but Cedars of tall Growth, choice Experience, singular Communion, walking with God, shining to the Conviction of the World. Will you let me but prevail with you in so good a Design? Why should you mourn at the last and say, How have I hated Instruction and my Heart despised Reproof? I have not obeyed the Voice of my Teachers, nor inclined mine Ears to them that instructed me,