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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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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?
Art. II. That he will entitle you to all the divine Persons and Perfections, Gen. 17.7. I will be a God unto thee: Mark, God gives away himself, and he gives his Son to you, Isa. 42.6. I will give thee for a Covenant of the People. This is the Church's Triumph, Isa. 9.6. Unto us a Son is given. And he gives his Spirit to you, Joh. 14.16. He shall give you another Comforter. And Believers acknowledge the Receipt. 1 Cor. 2.12. We have received the Spirit which is of God. Thus you see all the Persons of the God-head are made over to you, and so are all the Perfections of the God-head; and all the Covenant runs, Gen. 17.1. I am the Almighty God, or, the All-sufficient God, walk before me and be upright: These are the Terms between God and a Believer. Be thou upright before me, and I will be All-sufficient to thee: The All-sufficiency of God is the Comprehension of all his Perfections. Truth without Power, or Power without Wisdom, or both, without Goodness, would not be All-sufficiency. All-sufficiency takes in all that is in God, (if we may speak of Good most simple Essence according to the shallow reach ⟨p. 70⟩of our present Capacity) yea, it comprehends infinitely more than can be said or thought. Why now this is the Covenant of Grace, which God establishes with you this Day; that he will be a God All sufficient to you.