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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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Thirdly, God hath given particular Rules for the doing of all your Work in that manner that will please him. Had God told you only what must be done, and not how it must be done, you might have been at a Loss: But he hath prescribed the very Manner how every Thing must be done, that you might have full Direction […] Romans 12.8. 1 Peter 4.1. He hath showed yo• […] •ou must pray, and hear, and give Alms: How y• must carry it in all your Relations. He hath told you not only how you must fast, but how you must ear, to wit, with Watchfulness and Temperance, not as those who have Nothing to do, but to fill their Paunches; but with an Eye to his Glory, as those that are feeding and refreshing the Servants of JESUS CHRIST. He hath showed you, not only how you should rest ⟨p. 51⟩on the Lord's Day, but how you must follow your Calling on the rest, to wit, with Diligence and Discretion, minding him as your End, as those that herein serve the LORD CHRIST. He hath •old you, how you must manage your Dealings […] Equity and Charity, doing the very same to others, that your Consciences tell you, you would have them in the like Case to do unto you: How you must sleep, even as those that know he compasseth your Path, and your lying down, and how you must awake, to wit, so as to be still with him.
Thirdly, God hath given particular Rules for the doing of all your Work in that manner that will please him. Had God told you only what must be done, and not how it must be done, you might have been at a Loss: But he hath prescribed the very Manner how every Thing must be done, that you might have full Directio• 〈…〉 Romans 12.8. 1 Peter 4.1. He hath shewed yo• 〈…〉 ou must pray, and hear, and give Alms: How y must carry it in all your Relations. He hath told you not only how you must fast, but how you must ear, to wit, with Watchfulness and Temperance, not as those who have Nothing to do, but to fill their Paunches; but with an Eye to his Glory, as those that are feeding and refreshing the Servants of JESUS CHRIST. He hath shewed you, not only how you should rest