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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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What Pity is it that you should adventure much, and yet gain but little? How sad would it be, if you should at last suffer deeply for your Conscientious Attendance upon God in such Seasons, and when you come into a Prison, or into Banishment should find that you had not got that by them that would bear you out.
Coun. II. That you value no Mercy barely as it serves in content to your Flesh, but as it stands in order to Eternity, and may serve to the furthering your Maker's Glory. God hath preserved your Liberties, and hath restored mine: But what of all this, Unless we improve our Liberties for Eternity, what are we better than those that are in Prison, if this be all the Advantage we have a little more Content to our Flesh? The Cypher put to the Figure is of great Consideration, but put it by it self, it signifies nothing at all. These Creature Comforts separated from their Respect to God and Eternity, are of no Value: But in order to these Ends they signify much. We have Ease and Fullness, when many others are in Pain, and in Poverty; and we have much the Start of them, if we be ⟨p. 60⟩wise to improve our Health, in saying in a-pace against a wet Day, and preparing a pace for Eternity. And if we serve the Lord with the more abundant Diligence and Cheerfulness, and Gladness of Heart in the Abundance of all Things But if this be all we have by it, that our Bones do lie a little softer, and our Palates are tickled with a little the more Delight, what Profit have we by our Health, or our Estates? If they that be sick or poor do love the Lord as well, or serve the Lord as much as we; they have the Advantage of us, and better were it for us to be poor and sick as they be.
Coun. II. That you value no Mercy barely as it serves in content to your Flesh, but as it stands in order to Eternity, and may serve to the furthering your Maker's Glory. God hath preserved your Liberties, and hath restored mine: But what of all this, Unless we improve our Liberties for Eternity, what are we better than those that are in Prison, if this be all the Advantage we have a little more Content to our Flesh? The Cypher put to the Figure is of great Consideration, but put it by it self, it signifies nothing at all. These Creature Comforts separated from their Respect to God and Eternity, are of no Value: But in order to these Ends they signify much. We have Ease and Fulness, when many others are in Pain, and in Poverty; and we have much the Start of them, if we be