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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.
Well then, pause a little, and look within: Doth not this nearly concern thee? Thou pretendest for Christ; but doth not the world sway thee? Dost thou not take more real delight and content in the world, than in him? Dost not thou find thy self better at ease when the World goes to thy mind and thou art encompassed with carnal delights, than when retired to prayer and meditat on in thy closet, or attending upon God's Word and Worship? No surer Evidence of an unconverted State, than to have the things of the World uppermost in our aims, love, and estimation, John 2. 15. James 4. 4.
Well then, pause a little, and look within: Doth not this nearly concern thee? Thou pretendest for Christ; but doth not the world sway thee? Dost thou not take more real delight and content in the world, than in him? Dost not thou find thy self better at ease when the World goes to thy mind and thou art encompassed with carnal delights, than when retired to prayer and meditat on in thy closet, or attending upon God's Word and Worship? No surer Evidence of an unconverted State, than to have the things of the World uppermost in our aims, love, and estimation, Iohn 2. 15. Iames 4. 4.
With the sound convert Christ hath the supremacy. How dear is this name to him? How precious is its savour, Cant. 1. 3. Psal. 54. 8. The name of Jesus is engraven upon his heart, Gal. 4. 19. and lies as a bundle of Myrrh between his Breasts, Cant. 1. 13, 14. Honour is but air, and laughter is but madness, and Mammon is fallen like Dagon before the Ark, with hands and head broken off on the threshold, when once Christ is savingly revealed. Here is the pearl of great price to the true Convert; here is his treasure, here is his hope,