A26695:125
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.
Secondly, it turns the bias of the Will, both as to means and end. (1.) The intention of the Will is altered, Ezek. 36. 26. Jer. 31. 33. Isaiah 26. 8, 9. Now the man hath new ends and designs. Now he intends God above all, and desires and designs nothing in all the world so much, as that Christ may be magnified in him, Phil. 1. 20. He accounts himself more happy in this, than in all that the earth could yield, that he may be serviceable to Christ, and bring him glory ⟨p. 25⟩in his generation. This is the mark he aims a• that the name of Jesus may be great in the world, and that all the Sheaves of his Brethren may bow to this Sheaf.
Secondly, it turns the byass of the Will, both as to means and end. (1.) The intention of the Will is altered, Ezek. 36. 26. Ier. 31. 33. Esay 26. 8, 9. Now the man hath new ends and designs. Now he intends God above all, and desires and designs nothing in all the world so much, as that Christ may be magnified in him, Phil. 1. 20. He accounts himself more happy in this, than in all that the earth could yield, that he may be serviceable to Christ, and bring him glory ⟨p. 25⟩in his generation. This is the mark he aims a• that the name of Jesus may be great in the world, and that all the Sheaves of his Brethren may bow to this Sheaf.