Excerpt from The Solemn Warnings of the Dead, or an Admonition to Unconverted Sinners, And, a Call to the Unconverted
An earnest invitation to 'sinners to return to God, in order to their eternal salvation.
Dearly beloved and longed-for, I gladly acknowledge myself a debtor to you all, and am concerned, as I would be found a good steward torthe household of God, to give to every one his portion; but the physician is most solicit ous for those patients Whose case is most doubt ful and hazardous and the father's bowels are especially turned toward his dying child. The number of unconverted souls among you call for my most earnest compassion and hasty dilio gence to pluck them out of the burning, Jude 23. And therefore to these first I shall apply myself in these lines.
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Joseph Alleine (1634 - 1668)
Joseph Alleine was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1633. He loved and served the Lord from childhood. From eleven years of age onward, “the whole course of his youth was an even-spun thread of godly conversation,” wrote one observer. The times, however, are perilous. Charles I was beheaded and his son, Charles II, at the head of a Scottish army, is defeated by Cromwell’s Parliamentarians at Worcester as young Joseph Alleine sets off for Corpus Christi College. At Oxford, Alleine would sit at the feet of such divines as John Owen and Thomas Goodwin.Alleine’s Alarm to the Unconverted, the best known of his nineteen treatises, was first printed in 1671 (subtitle: A Serious Treatise on Conversion) and subsequently printed as A Sure Guide to Heaven in 1675—the title given to the latest Banner of Truth Trust editions. It is a powerful manual on conversion and the call of the gospel, as the chapter titles reveal: Mistakes about Conversion; The Nature of Conversion; The Necessity of Conversion; The Marks of the Unconverted; The Miseries of the Unconverted; Directions to the Unconverted; The Motives to Conversion.
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