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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.
More particularly, this change of conversion passes throughout in the whole subject. A carnal person may have some Shreds of good morality, a little near the list, but he is never good throughout the whole cloth, the whole body of Holiness and Christianity; Feel him a little further near the ridge, and you shall see him to be but a deceitful piece. Conversion is not repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure: it is not the putting in a patch, or sowing on a list of holiness; but with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice. The sincere Christian is quite a new fabric, from the foundation to the Top-stone, all fire-new. He is a new man, Eph. 4. 24. a new creature. All things are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. Conversion is a deep work; a heart work, Acts 2. 37. and 6. 14. it turns all upside down, and makes a man be in a new world. It goes throughout with Men, throughout the Mind, throughout the Members, throughout the Motions of the whole Life.
More particularly, this change of conversion passes throughout in the whole subject. A carnal person may have some Shreds of good morality, a little near the list, but he is never good throughout the whole cloth, the whole body of Holiness and Christianity; Feel him a little further near the ridge, and you shall see him to be but a deceitful piece. Conversion is not repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure: it is not the putting in a patch, or sowing on a list of holiness; but with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice. The sincere Christian is quite a new fabrick, from the foundation to the Top-stone, all fire-new. He is a new man, Eph. 4. 24. a new creature. All things are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. Conversion is a deep work; a heart work, Acts 2. 37