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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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It is storied, that when Jupiter let down the golden Chaplets from Heaven, all of them but one were stolen: Whereupon (lest they should lose a relic of so great esteem) they make five others so like it, that if thy were so wickedly minded, as to steal that also, they should not be able to discern which was it. And truly my beloved, the Devil hath made many counterfeits of this Conversion and cheats one with this, and another with that and such a Craft and Artifice he hath, in this Mystery of Deceits: (that if it were possible) he would deceive the very Elect. Now that I may cure th• damnable Mistakes of some, who think they are Converted when they are not, as well as remove the troubles, and fears of others, that think they are not converted when they are; I shall show you the Nature of Conversion, both Negatively, o• what it is not; and positively what it is.
It is storied, that when Jupiter let down the golden Chaplets from Heaven, all of them but one were stolen: Whereupon (lest they should lose a relique of so great esteem) they make five others so like it, that if thy were so wickedly minded, as to steal that also, they should not be able to discern which was it. And truly my beloved, the Devil hath made many counterfeits of this Conversion and cheats one with this, and another with that and such a Craft and Artifice he hath, in this Mystery of Deceits: (that if it were possible) he would deceive the very Elect. Now that I may cure th• damnable Mistakes of some, who think they are Converted when they are not, as well as remove the troubles, and fears of others, that think they are not converted when they are; I shall shew you the Nature of Conversion, both Negatively, o• what it is not; and positively what it is.