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A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…
A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to God in order to their eternal salvation showing the thoughtful sinner what he must do to be saved / by Joseph Alleine.A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to God in order to their eternal salvation shewing the thoughtful sinner what he must do to be saved / by Joseph Alleine.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
So then it is a work above man's power. We are ⟨p. 17⟩born, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man; but of God, John. 1. 13. Never think thou canst convert thy self. If ever thou wouldst be savingly converted, thou must despair of doing it in thine own strength, Jer. 13. 18. It is a Resurrection from the dead, Rev. 20. 5. Eph. 2. 1. a new creation, Gal. 6. 15. Eph. 2. 10. a work of absolute omnipotency, Eph. 1. 19. Are these out of the reach of humane power? If thou hast no more than thou hadst by thy first birth, a good nature, a meek and chaste temper, &c. thou art a very stranger to true Conversion. This is a supernatural work.
So then it is a work above man's power. We are ⟨p. 17⟩born, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man; but of God, Iohn. 1. 13. Never think thou canst convert thy self. If ever thou wouldst be saveingly converted, thou must despair of doing it in thine own strength, Ier. 13. 18. It is a Resurrection from the dead, Rev. 20. 5. Eph. 2. 1. a new creation, Gal. 6. 15.