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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.
This must be premised, before we proceed to the discovery, that it is most certain men may have a confident persuasion, that their hearts and states be good, and yet be unsound. Hear the Truth himself, who shows in Laodicea's case, that men may be wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, and yet not know it, yea they may be confident they are rich and increased in grace, Rev. 3. 17. There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness, Prov. 30. 12. who better persuaded of his Case, than Paul, while yet he remained unconverted? Rom. 7. 9. So that they are miserably deceived, that take a strong confidence, for a sufficient evidence. They that have no better proof, than barely a strong persuasion, that they are converted, are certainly as yet ••rangers to Conversion.
This must be premised, before we proceed to the discovery, that it is most certain men may have a confident perswasion, that their hearts and states be good, and yet be unsound. Hear the Truth himself, who shews in Laodicea's case, that men may be wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, and yet not know it, yea they may be confident they are rich and increased in grace, Rev. 3. 17. There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness, Prov. 30. 12. who better perswaded of his Case, than Paul, while yet he remained unconverted? Rom. 7. 9. So that they are miserably deceived, that take a strong confidence, for a sufficient evidence. They that have no better proof, than barely a strong perswasion, that they are converted, are certainly as yet ••rangers to Conversion.