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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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But I must apply my self to you, to whom I am sent: yet I am at a great Loss Would to God I knew how to go to work with you! Would I stick at the pains? God •noweth, you yourselves are my Witnesses, how I have followed you in private, as well as in public, and have brought the Gospel to your Doors▪ testifying to you the necessity of the New birth, and persuading you to look in time after a sound and through change. Beloved, I have not acted a part among you to serve my own advantage: your Gospel is not yea, and nay. Have you not heard the same Truths, from the Pulpit, by public Labours, by Private Letters, and by Personal Instructions? Brethren, I am of the same mind as ever, that Holiness is the best choice, that there is no entering into Heaven, but by the straight passages of the second Birth, that without Holiness you shall never see God, Heb. 12.14. Ah, my Beloved! refresh my Bowels in the Lord. If there ⟨p. 3⟩be any Consolation in Christ, any Comfort of Love, any Fellowship of the Spirit, and Bowels and Mercies, fulfil you my Joy. Now give your selves unto the Lord, 2 Cor. 8 5. Now set your selves to seek him Now set up the Lord Jesus in your Hearts, and set him up in your Houses: Now come in and kiss the Son, Psalm 2.12. and embrace the Tenders of Mercy. Touch his Sceptre and live; why will you die? I beg not for my self; but fain I would have you happy: This is the Prize I run for, and the white I aim at. My Soul's Desire and prayer for you is, that you may be saved, Rom. 10.1.
But I must apply my self to you, to whom I am sent: yet I am at a great Loss Would to God I knew how to go to work with you! Would I stick at the pains? God •noweth, you yourselves are my Witnesses, how I have followed you in private, as well as in publick, and have brought the Gospel to your Doors▪ testifying to you the necessity of the New birth, and perswading you to look in time after a sound and thorow change. Beloved, I have not acted a part among you to serve my own advantage: your Gospel is not yea, and nay. Have you not heard the same Truths, from the Pulpit, by publick Labours, by Private Letters, and by Personal Instructions? Brethren, I am of the same mind as ever, that Holiness is the best choice, that there is no entring into Heaven, but by the straight passages of the second Birth, that without Holiness you shall never see God,