An Alarm to the Unconverted

Joseph Alleine — read again from the page images of the 1850 American Tract Society edition (archive.org), in modern spelling.

Alleine wrote this in 1671, three years after being turned out of Taunton and imprisoned for preaching, and died at thirty-four. It went through edition after edition — twenty thousand copies of the first, fifty thousand of the second — and it is the book that stands behind Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted on one side and Whitefield’s preaching on the other. It asks one question and will not let it go: what conversion is not, what it is, why it is necessary, the marks of the unconverted, their misery, the directions, and the motives.

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Contents (9)

1. Introduction: An Earnest Invitation to Sinners to Turn to God
2. Showing What Conversion Is Not, and Correcting Some Mistakes about It
3. Showing Positively What Conversion Is
4. The Necessity of Conversion
5. The Marks of the Unconverted
6. The Miseries of the Unconverted
7. Directions to the Unconverted
8. The Motives to Conversion
9. The Conclusion of the Whole