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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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Christians, rouse up your Faith: Now appropriate and apply the Promises: Now believe strongly, and steadfastly, and Believing will fill you with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory. I do not wonder if your Faith be put to it in so high and great a Mystery; to draw nigh to infinite Majesty, and consideringly and without Hesitancy to say, Thou art mine and all that thou hast; this is no easy thing. But thou mayest not dare to doubt it: Canst thou question him who is the Truth? Can the Strength of Israel lie, or in his Word deceive thee? But the Soul is ready to reply, Oh the Things are too high and too great for me to presume to believe, and is ready with Peter astonished, to cry out, Depart Lord, for I am a sinful Man. But why doth thine Hand tremble and thine Heart fail thee: And thy Feet (with Peter's when walking on the Waters) begin to sink? What dost thou stick at? Is it at the Truth of the Promise? No, saith the trembling Soul, but sure so much can never belong to one so sinful. I am afraid it is not mine. Why, what saith the Promise? Only be upright. What though thou hast an hundred Failings, yet thy Heart is upright: The Bent of thy Heart is mainly for God and Holiness; thou makest Conscience of all Sin, little as well as great, secret as well as open; and dost thou deliberately allow thyself in any: Thou doest in the settled Frame of thy Heart prefer the Pleasing of God, and value his Favour and Fellowship above all worldly Good; therefore thou art upright: These Marks are infallible. What, dost thou object thy Failings? Art thou under a Covenant of Works? Do you think God now stands upon Perfection? The Covenant is plain: God accepteth of Uprightness: And God hath wrought in thee that Condition that he requires ⟨p. 71⟩of thee. What can be more plain? Wilt thou suffer the Devil and Unbelief to catch the Bread out of thy Hand, when God tells thee it is thine? Wilt thou be against thyself, and refuse thine own Peace, when God is come to seal thee up to the Day of Redemption? This is that which the Lord here seals to thee, That he will be God All-sufficient to thee. O believe and be thankful, and rejoice in thine own Blessedness! Oh happy, thrice happy Souls, whom the living God thus signifieth and sealeth to, and assigns over all his infinite Perfections as its everlasting Possession.
Christians, rouse up your Faith: Now appropriate and apply the Promises: Now believe strongly, and stedfastly, and Believing will fill you with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory. I do not wonder if your Faith be put to it in so high and great a Mystery; to draw nigh to infinite Majesty, and consideringly and without Hesitancy to say, Thou art mine and all that thou hast; this is no easy thing. But thou mayest not dare to doubt it: Canst thou question him who is the Truth? Can the Strength of Israel lie, or in his Word deceive thee? But the Soul is ready to reply, Oh the Things are too high and too great for me to presume to believe, and is ready with Peter astonished, to cry out, Depart Lord, for I am a sinful Man. But why doth thine Hand tremble and thine Heart fail thee: And thy Feet (with Peter's when walking on the Waters) begin to sink? What dost thou stick at? Is it at the Truth of the Promise? No, saith the trembling Soul, but sure so much can never belong to one so sinful. I am afraid it is not mine. Why, what saith the Promise? Only be upright. What though thou hast an hundred Failings, yet thy Heart is upright: The Bent of thy Heart is mainly for God and Holiness; thou makest Conscience of all Sin, little as well as great, secret as well as open; and dost thou deliberately allow thyself in any: Thou doest in the settled Frame of thy Heart prefer the Pleasing of God, and value his Favour and Fellowship above all worldly Good; therefore thou art upright: These Marks are infallible. What, dost thou object thy Failings? Art thou under a Covenant of Works? Do you think God now stands upon Perfection? The Covenant is plain: God accepteth of Uprightness: And God hath wrought in thee that Condition that he requires