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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.
Sin doth naturally breed distempers and disturbances in the soul• • What a continual tempest and commotion is there in a discontented mind? What an eating evil is inordinate care? What is passion but a very fever in the mind? What is lust but a fire in them bones? What is pride but a deadly tympany; or covetousness but an unsatiable and unsufferable thirst? Or malice and envy but venom in the very heart? Spiritual sloth is but a scurvy in the mind, and carnal security a mortal lethargy; and how can that soul have true comfort that is under so many diseases? But converting grace cures, and so eases the mind, and prepares the soul for a settled, standing, immortal peace. Great peace have they that love thy Commands, and nothing shall offend them, Psal 119. 165. They are the ways of wisdom that afford pleasure and peace, Prov. 3. 17. David had infinitely more pleasure in the word, than in all the delights of his Court, Psal. 119. 103, 127. The Conscience cannot be truly pacified, till soundly purified, Heb. 10. 22. Cursed is that peace, that ⟨p. 57⟩is maintained in a way of sin, Deut. 29. 19, 20. Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world; peace with sin, and peace in sin.
Sin doth naturally breed distempers and disturbances in the soul• • What a continual tempest and commotion is there in a disconte•ted mind? What an eating evil is inordinate care? What is passion but a very feaver in the mind? What is lust but a fire in thē bones? What is pride but a deadly tympany; or covetousness but an un•atiable and unsufferable thirst? Or malice and envy but venom in the very heart? Spiritual sloth is but a scurvy in the mind, and carnal security a mortal lethargy; and how can that soul have true comfort that is under so many diseases? But converting grace cures, and so eases the mind, and prepares the soul for a setled, standing, immortal peace. Great peace have they that love thy Commands, and nothing shall offend them, Psal 119. 165. They are the ways of wisdom that afford pleasure and peace,