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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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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, Gal. 6.15.
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 shew 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 shew 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, Gal. 6.15.
Q. III What if I should lose my Soul? What fair Work should I make of it then? This is very possible, Mat. 16 26. Yet it is the Case of the most: There are but few, few of the Children of Men, that do escape safe to Heaven, Mat. 6.14. Sirs, be aware of your Danger, and fear, lest a Promise being left of entering into his Rest, any of you should at last come short of it,