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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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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 o•goes 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.
Conclusion 1. Where his Weariness is only in the Members (or at least chie• ) but there is still a Willingness of the Mind; this is no Matter of questioning our Estate. Where the Mind o•goes 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 Listlesness 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.
2. Where our Weariness in and Unwillingness to Duties, is only gradual and partial, not plenary and prevalent, it is not sufficient to conclude our selves graceless: While the Twins are together in the Womb, and two Nations within our Bowels, there will be contrary Inclinations. The Flesh will never say Amen, to a good Motion as such, but will be lusting against the Spirit, and will hang back when the Spirit puts forward, and pulls down when the Spirit bends upwards: So that while Corruption remaineth, there will be always a dissenting Party, and continual Conflicts; from whence it is no Wonder there should arise some Weariness: Yet the Spirit is the prevailing Interest, and tho' oft times foiled, yet hath mostly the Mastery in the Combat, and carries it against the Flesh, though not