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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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I. It is very possible: […] God is very easy to be pleased: He is not […] •ward Master that ⟨p. 50⟩cannot, that will not be pleased. If you do but make it your Study and your Care to please him, and throughly set your Hearts to it, you• willing Mind shall be accepted, 2 Cor. 8.12. And tho' you should not go through with the Work, God will say, Thou didst well that it was in thy Heart, 2 Chr. 6.8. When the Heart is set to please the Lord, and we do unfeignedly put to it, tho' there be very many Failings, God will overlook them, 2 Cor. 30.18, 19, 20.
I. It is very possible: 〈…〉 God is very easy to be pleased: He is not 〈…〉 •ward Master that ⟨p. 50⟩cannot, that will not be pleased. If you do but make it your Study and your Care to please him, and throughly set your Hearts to it, you• willing Mind shall be accepted, 2 Cor. 8.12. And tho' you should not go through with the Work, God will say, Thou didst well that it was in thy Heart, 2 Chr. 6.8. When the Heart is set to please the Lord, and we do unfeignedly put to it, tho' there be very many Failings, God will overlook them, 2 Cor. 30.18, 19, 20.
Secondly, God hath told you what will please him, and hath cut out your Work to your Hand. You need not say, Wherewith shall we come before the Lord? He hath showed you what is good, and what he requireth of you, Mic 6.6, 7, 8. You need not say, Who shall ascend into Heaven to bring down the Mind of God from Heaven? No, the Word is nigh you,