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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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How well were it if there were no more unconverted ones among us, than those to whom this is directed! Unconverted Persons how many are there, but how few Unconverted Readers, especially of such Books as this before thee! A Play or a Romance better suits the lusts, and therefore must have more of the Eye of such; what will cherish the evil Heart is only grateful, not what will change it. How many are there to whom this is directed, who will not know that they are the Men! And how little Hopes is there that this Excellent Treatise should reach its End, with those who apprehend themselves not concerned in it? Art not thou one of them? Art thou a Convert, or art thou yet in thy sins? What is sin? What is Conversion? It may be thou canst tell me neither, and yet a Convert thou sayest thou art; but to what purpose is it then like to be, for the Servant of God to treat with thee about this Matter? Let him bid thee believe, thou art a Believer already; Let him bid thee repent and turn to the Lord, that work thou sayest is not ⟨p. xxii⟩now to do; what can there be said to this Man that's like to bring him to good? Friend, know thy self better, or thou perishest with out Remedy. Thou mayest pray, but what hope is there in thy Praying: Thou mayest read, but what Hope is there in thy Reading? Yet read on, this little hope there is, in this Book there is Eye salve that may heal thee of thy Blindness. In this Book there is a Glass, that will show thee thy Face. Dost thou know thine own Face when thou seest it? Behold thy very Image in those Marks that are given of an unconverted Person. Read and consider them, and then say, if thou be not the Man.
HOw well were it if there were no more unconverted ones among us, than those to whom this is directed! Uncon•erted Persons how many are there, but how few Unconverted Readers, especially of such Books as this before thee! A Play or a Romance better suits the lusts, and therefore must have more of the Eye of such; what will cherish the evil Heart is only grateful, not what will change it. How many are there to whom this is directed, who will not know that they are the Men! And how little Hopes is there that this Excellent Treatise should reach its End, with those who apprehend themselves not concerned in it? Art not thou one of them? Art thou a Convert, or art thou yet in thy sins? What is sin? What is Conversion? It may be thou canst tell me neither, and yet a Convert thou sayest thou art; but to what purpose is it then like to be, for the Servant of God to treat with thee about this Matter? Let him bid thee believe, thou art a Believer already; Let him bid thee repent and turn to the Lord, that work thou sayest is not