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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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The Cordials follow, which are Sacramental-Cordials.
Most dearly beloved Brethren,
THIS Holy Sacrament is appointed as a Sealing Ordinance betwixt Christ and you. The Covenants are made, the Terms are agreed to on both sides; God is willing to be yours, to all Intents and Purposes; your Shield, and exceeding great Reward, your Refuge and your Rest, your God and your Guide, while Christ hath it, you shall never want; and what God is to him, that he (in order) will be to you.
You again (through Grace) are willing to be His, his in his own Way; and on his own Terms: Willing to serve him; willing to fashion yourselves after him. Willing to be betrothed to him, and to be commanded by him; to use his Remedies, to follow his Counsels, and to acquiesce in him as your Blessedness: Thus all are agreed; the Articles are drawn; the Covenants, both on God's Part and yours are ready written: And here you are come to put all past Controversy, and mutually to seal and subscribe: ⟨p. 67⟩Oh happy and blessed Meeting! Christians, do not forget your Errand; remember where you are, and what you are come for, and know that you are upon the solemnest Transaction that ever passed between the Creator and the Creature. It is God's admirable Condescension, that he will be tied to us, and enter into Bonds with us, to bless us, and reward us. And because our Faith is weak, he hath brought his Surety with him, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, who is a Surety on his Part, as well as ours, to undertake for the fulfilling of the Promises. And he hath brought the visible Signs, and Pledges by which all shall be firmly past and ratified before your Eyes. This is the New-Testament in my Blood,