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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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Art. III. That he will discharge you from all your Debts, Heb. 8.10, 12. This the Covenant, I will be merciful to their Unrighteousness, and their Sins and Iniquities will I remember no more, Isa. 1.18. Tho' your Sins be as Scarlet, they shall be as white as Snow. Believest thou this? Cone near beloved Christian, approach believingly, and here thou shalt see the Lord crossing out all thy Debs, taking away the Hand-Writing that is against thee, declaring that he hath received a Ransom, and i• is satisfied, contented and paid. O happy Man •hat shall leave all thy Sins behind thee; why, this is the very thing that the faithful God doth here sea• unto thee: Thy Pardon is written in his most sacred Blood, which is here shed for the Remission of Sins. So that thou mayest triumph with the Apo•le, Who is he that condemneth, it is Christ that died, Rom. 8.34.
Art. IV. That he will save you from your Enemies; not from the Combat, but from the Conquest. The Victory shall be sure, so far as God is engaged. So the Covenant runs in the first Discovery, that the Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent's Head, though he should brui• his Heel, Gen. 3.15. by the Seed of the Woman, understand not Christ only, but all Believers, by the Serpent understand not Satan only, but all his Party, the ungodly persecuting World, which are his Children; and all our tyrannous Lusts, which are ⟨p. 72⟩his Brood, his Works. By his bruising our Heel, understand his Molesting and Wounding of us, but not mortally. By our breaking his Head, understand the total and final Victory which we shall most certainly obtain over him and his Party at last. Christians, what should we fear! Death? The Covenant here sealed, makes over Death as a Legacy to you, and behold it brings you the Head of your conquered Enemies in a Charger, 2 Cor 3.22. Death is yours. O blessed and most grateful Present. Satan? The Covenant assures you God will bruise him under your Feet shortly,