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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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For the Unconverted, there are these six Questions which I would advise them to put to their Souls
Quest. I. What Estate did my Soul come into the World first in? Was it not in a State of Death, Eph. 2.1. An Estate of Wrath, verse 3. Sirs, Awake and bethink yourselves where you are, and whither you are going. While you are in your natural unconverted, unbelieving State, all your Sins are unpardoned, and the Wrath of GOD abideth on you, Acts 3.19. John 3.3, 36. Suppose you saw a poor Creature hanging over a burning fiery Furnace, by nothing but a twined Thread, like to break every Moment, would not your Hearts shake for such an one? Sirs, it is your very Case; you hang over the ⟨p. 57⟩infernal Burnings by Nothing but the small Thread of your Lives, which you know not but it may crack the next Moment, and then where are you? Is this a Case for you to go on merrily and contentedly in?
Q. II. What Condition is your Soul now in? Am I changed and renewed by Conversion, or am I not? Speak Conscience, hath this Man, this Woman, been soundly and savingly changed both in Heart and Life? Where are your Evidences? Can you show the Marks of the Lord Jesus upon your Souls? Let your Conscience answer, where was the Place? What was the Means? When was the Time that thy Soul was throughly renewed? At least if thou cannot show the Time, Place nor Means, can you prove the Thing? Can you say, with him, [one Thing I know, that whereas I was blind, I now see] Sirs, be not deceived, I tell you, whatever you be, and whatever you do, nothing will avail you to Salvation, except you be new Creatures,