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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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Well, this is one of the Articles that God here sealeth to, that he will be to you in the Place of all Relations: Silence thou quarrelling Unbelief; methinks I hear thy Whispers, That this is too good ⟨p. 69⟩to be true, that it were Presumption in us to count upon all this. What; shall they that must say to Corruption, that thou art my Father, be able to say to the incorruptible God, Thou art my Father? Shall they that must say to the Worm, thou art my Mother and my Sister, be able to say to the Angels of Light, Ye are my Fellow-Servants? And to the King of Glory, Thou art my Brother, and my Kinsman? Shall Majesty espouse himself to Misery? and the Worms Meat be married to Immortality and Life? How can these Things be?
Well, this is one of the Articles that God here sealeth to, that he will be to you in the Place of all Relations: Silence thou quarreling Unbelief; methinks I hear thy Whispers, That this is too good ⟨p. 69⟩to be true, that it were Presumption in us to count upon all this. What; shall they that must say to Corruption, that thou art my Father, be able to say to the incorruptible God, Thou art my Father? Shall they that must say to the Worm, thou art my Mother and my Sister, be able to say to the Angels of Light, Ye are my Fellow-Servants? And to the King of Glory, Thou art my Brother, and my Kinsman? Shall Majesty espouse himself to Misery? and the Worms Meat be married to Immortality and Life? How can these Things be?
Nay, but O Heart of Infidelity, what art thou that repliest against God? Dost thou, under a sly Pretence of Humility, question with thy Master, and call his Veracity into Doubt? Is not this his Word, his Promise, his Covenant? And is not there of his Seal? Why then dost thou doubt, O thou little Faith?