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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.
Alas, if the poor man think a Sermon long, and say of a Sabbath, What a weariness is it? Mal. 1. 13. how miserable would he think it, to be held to it to all eternity? 5. To his immutability, or else to his Omniscience, Omnipotency. For this is enacted in the Conclave of Heaven, and enrolled in the decrees of the Court above, that none but the pure in heart shall ever see God, Mat. 5. 8. This is laid up with him, and sealed among his Treasures. Now if Christ, yet, bring any to Heaven unconverted, either he must get them in without his Fathers knowledge, and then where is his Omniscience? Or against his will, and then where were his Omnipotency? Or he must change his will, and then where were his Immutability?
Alas, if the poor man think a Sermon long, and say of a Sabbath, What a weariness is it? Mal. 1. 13. how miserable would he think it, to be held to it to all eternity? 5. To his immutability, or else to his Omnisciency, Omnipotency. For this is enacted in the Conclave of Heaven, and enrolled in the decrees of the Court above, that none but the pure in heart shall ever see God, Mat. 5. 8. This is laid up with him, and sealed among his Treasures. Now if Christ, yet, bring any to Heaven unconverted, either he must get them in without his Fathers knowledge, and then where is his Omnisciency? Or against his will, and then where were his Omnipotency? Or he must change his will, and then where were his Immutability?
Sinner, wilt thou not yet give up thy vain hope of being saved in this condition? Saith Bildad, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or the rocks moved out of their place? Job 18. 4. May not I, much more reason so with thee? Shall the Laws of Heaven be reversed for thee? Shall the everlasting foundations be overturned for thee? Shall Christ put out the eye of his Fathers Omniscience, or shorten the arm of his eternal power for thee? Shall divine Justice be violated for thee? or the brightness of the glory of his holiness be blemished for thee? Oh the impossibility,