N03796:611
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨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.
Conclusion 1. Where his Weariness is only in the Members (or at least chief ) but there is still a Willingness of the Mind; this is no Matter of questioning our Estate. Where the Mind ogoes and outdoes the Body, and the Appetite o Duties continues in Vigour, tho' there be a languishing of the natural Strength, and weariness of the bodily Organs; this is not our Sin, but Affliction. But too commonly the Body hath so much Influence upon the Mind, and causeth a Listlessness and Sluggishness there, and makes it negligent in its Office: Yet when this doth proceed from the failing of the Spirits, tired with bodily Labour and Exercise, and from the Distempers of the Parts, our most pitiful Father considers our Frame, and remembers we are but Dust: And our merciful High Priest, that is not untouched with the Sense of our Infirmities, is ready to frame our Excuse, That the Spirit is willing, but the Flesh is weak.