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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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Couns. VI. Confine not your Religion to your Knees, but carry on an even spun Thread of Holiness through your whole Course Brethren, 'tis the Disgrace of Religion, that Christians are so unlike themselves, unless it be when they are in Holy Duties. This wounds Religion to the Quick, when it shall be said of Professors, These Men indeed, will pray like Angels, but for aught we can see, they are as peevish, and as touchy, as any other Men, and they are as hard in their Dealings, and make as little Conscience of their Words, as others do. Beloved, think not Religion lies only, or chiefly, in praying, hearing, reading: No, you must be throughout religious. Sirs, bring forth your Religion out of your Closets into your ordinary Course. Let there not be a List of Holiness on the Outside of the Cloth, but let Holiness be woven into the Whole of your Conversations. Here lies the Excellency and Difficulty of Religion: When you have the Baits of Intemperance before you, then hold the Reins hard, and deny your Flesh; and when you have Provocation before you, then to bite in your Passions, and bridle the ⟨p. 63⟩unruly Members: When you have Dealings with others, then to proceed by that Golden Rule of Equity and Charity, To do to others as your Conscience tells you, you would have them do in like Case to you. When you are called upon in your several Relations, then to behave yourselves with that Tenderness and Love, with that Reverence and Obedience, with that Courtesy and Condescension, and Kindness that becomes you in your various Capacities: In this I say, lies the Excellency of Religion.
Couns. VI. Confine not your Religion to your Knees, but carry on an even spun Thread of Holiness through your whole Course Brethren, 'tis the Disgrace of Religion, that Christians are so unlike themselves, unless it be when they are in Holy Duties. This wounds Religion to the Quick, when it shall be said of Professors, These Men indeed, will pray like Angels, but for aught we can see, they are as peevish, and as touchy, as any other Men, and they are as hard in their Dealings, and make as little Conscience of their Words, as others do. Beloved, think not Religion lies only, or chiefly, in praying, hearing, reading: No, you must be throughout religious. Sirs, bring forth your Religion out of your Closers into your ordinary Course. Let there not be a List of Holiness on the Outside of the Cloth, but let Holiness be woven into the Whole of your Conversations. Here lies the Excellency and Difficulty of Religion: When you have the Baits of Intemperance before you, then hold the Reins hard, and deny your Flesh; and when you have Provocation before you, then to bite in your Passions, and bridle the