An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners in a Serious Treatise on Conversion

New York: American Tract Society; D. Fanshow, Printer, 1830. Very good. Early-19th-century edition, n. d. (1830s - date obtained from publisher's address and employment period of the rinter with the society); 6 x 3 3/4; pp. [7], 6-164; publisher's brown, embossed-cloth binding; gilt title to spine; small rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; faint foxing and discoloration mostly to first and last few leaves; overall in very good condition.Joseph Alleine (1634 - 1668) was a British Nonconformist pastor and a prolific author of religious works. "An Alarm to Unconverted...," also known as "The Sure Guide to Heaven," would become one of his most popular writings - contrasting the lives of the true believers with those of the ones not having the faith and pleading with the unconverted to accept Christ. According to the publisher, in this particular edition "...some obsolete words and phrases are altered, and a few passages omitted. - The author's Six Questions to the Unconverted, and Counsels for the Converted are added."