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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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2. It is not the being washed in the Laver of Regeneration, or putting on the Badge of Christ in Baptism. Many take the Press-money, and wear the Livery of Christ, that yet never stand to their Colours, no• follow the• Leader. Ananias and Sapphira, and Magus, were baptized, as well as the rest. How fondly do many mistake here, deceiving, and being deceived! dreaming that effectual Grace is necessarily tied to the external Administration of Baptism (which, what is it, but to revive the Popish Tenet, of the Sacraments working Grace, ex opere […]) and so every Infant shall be regenerated, not only (Sacramento tenus) sacramentally, but •eally and properly. Hence Men do fancy, that being regenerated already, when baptized, they need no farther work
2. It is not the being washed in the Laver of Regeneration, or putting on the Badge of Christ in Baptism. Many take the Press-money, and wear the Livery of Christ, that yet never stand to their Colours, no• follow the• Leader. Ananias and Sapphira, and Magus, were baptized, as well as the rest. How fondly do many mistake here, deceiving, and being deceived! dreaming that effectual Grace is necessarily tied to the external Administration of Baptism (which, what is it, but to revive the Popish Tenent, of the Sacraments working Grace, ex opere 〈…〉) and so every Infant shall be regenerated, not only (Sacramento tenus) sacramentally, but •eally and properly. Hence Men do fancy, that being regenerated already, when baptized, they need no farther work
But if this were so, then all that were baptized (in their Infancy) must necessarily be saved? because the Promise of pardon and Salvation is made to Conversion and Regeneration.