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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.
The Internal mover is only free grace. Not by works of righteousness which we have done: But of his own mercy he saved us—by the renewing of the Holy Ghost, Tit. 3. 5. Of his own will begat he us, Jam. 1. We are chosen and called unto Sanctification, not for it, Eph. 1. 4.
The Internal mover is only free grace. Not by works of righteousness which we have done: But of his own mercy he saved us—by the renewing of the Holy Ghost, Tit. 3. 5. Of his own will begat he us, Iam. 1. We are chosen and called unto Sanctification, not for it, Eph. 1. 4.
God finds nothing in a man to turn his heart, but to turn his stomach: enough to provoke his loathing, nothing to provoke his love. Look back upon thy self, O Christian: Take up thy verminous rags: Look upon thy self in thy blood, Ez. 16. 6. O reflect upon thy swinish Nature, thy filthy swill, thy once beloved mire, 2 Pet. 2. Canst thou think without loathing of thy trough and draught? Open thy Sepulchre, Mat. 23. 27. Art thou struck almost dead with the hellish damp? behold thy putrid soul, thy loathsome members. O stench unsufferable, if thou dost but sense thy own putrefaction! Psal. 14. 3. Behold thy ghastly visage, they crawling Justs, thy slime and corruption. Do not thine own Clothes abhor thee?