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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. VIII. Be and do more than ordinary in your Families and Closets, now in the Defects of the more public Ordinances.
Couns. VIII. Be and do more than ordinary in your Families and Closets, now in the Defects of the more publick Ordinances.
1. In your Closets see that your Consciences be able to bear you witness, that under GOD's extraordinary Providences, you do more than ever in Answer thereunto. It may be you prayed twice in the Day before; Why should you not at such a Time as this is, make one Visit more than ordinary to Heaven, daily to represent before God the Calamities of his Church. This be sure of, that somewhat more than heretofore must be done, else God must look upon himself as intolerably slighted, and upon his Church as most unnaturally neglected, if we do not now put to it. Be more than ever, in Self-Examination God doth look, that when he is trying of us, we should be much in the Trial of ourselves. And here let me put it to your Consciences, How are your Rules for daily Examination looked after? Do you try yourselves by them from Day to Day? Ah wretched Negligence! What have you given your Approbation, and passed your Promise, and yet even in such a Day as this, so much forget your Duty? God expects it of you, that now you see him angry, you should with more jealous Fear, and tender Circumspection, and holy Watchfulness and Self-denial, walk before him, else you will greatly incense his Indignation, when he shall see that you slight his Anger.
2. In your Families; Christians, now the Lord calls aloud upon you, to set your Houses in Order. Oh see what is amiss in them, and strive to cast out that which may be a Provocation. Three Things I advise •ou in reference to your Families.