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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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CHAP. III. A Fourth Case of Conscience.
What Weariness in, and Unwillingness to Duties, may stand with Grace, and what not? For the Resolving this, some Distinctions must be premised, and then some Conclusions elicited.
WHat Weariness in, and Unwillingness to Duties, may stand with Grace, and what not? For the Resolving this, some Distinctions must be premised, and then some Conclusions elicited.
Distinction. This Weariness and Unwillingness must be distinguished, 1. According to the Degrees of it, and so it is either Partial and Gradual, or else Prevalent and Plenary. 2. According to the Subject of it: And so this Weariness is either of the Members, or else of the Mind. 3. According to the Prevalency of it; and so it is either transient and occasional, or else settled and habitual. 4. According to the Sense we have of it; and so it is either Matter of Allowance to us, or Matter of Annoyance. 5. According to the Cause of it; and so it is either from a fixed Dislike of Food, or else from an accidental Distemper of the Stomach. 6. According to the ⟨p. 53⟩Effects of it; for it is either victorious, and makes us give ove• Duties […] el• abhorred, and repulsed by Grace, the Christian still holding on in the Way of Duty.
Distinction. This Weariness and Unwillingness must be distinguished, 1. According to the Degrees of it, and so it is either Partial and Gradual, or else Prevalent and Plenary. 2. According to the Subject of it: And so this Weariness is either of the Members, or else of the Mind. 3. According to the Prevalency of it; and so it is either transient and occasional, or else settled and habitual. 4. According to the Sense we have of it; and so it is either Matter of Allowance to us, or Matter of Annoyance. 5. According to the Cause of it; and so it is either from a fixed Dislike of Food, or else from an accidental Distemper of the Stomach. 6. According to the