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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.
But to come more close; as it was said of the adherents of Antichrist, so here; some of the unconverted carry their Marks in their foreheads, more openly; and some in their hands, more covertly. The Apostle reckons up some, upon whom he writes the sentence of Death, as in these dreadful Catalogues, which I beseech you to attend with all diligence, Eph. 5. 5, 6. For this you know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an Idolater, ⟨p. 73⟩hath an inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the Children of disobedience. Rev. 21. 8. But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and Murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and •ll liars, shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. Know you not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters and adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, or extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God? See Gal. 5. 19, 20, 21. Woe to them that have their names written in these bed-rolls: such may know, as certainly as if God had told it them from Heaven, that they are unsanctified, and under an impossibility of being saved in this condition.
But to come more close; as it was said of the adherents of Antichrist, so here; some of the unconverted carry their Marks in their foreheads, more openly; and some in their hands, more covertly. The Apostle reckons up some, upon whom he writes the sentence of Death, as in these dreadful Catalogues, which I beseech you to attend with all diligence, Eph. 5. 5, 6. For this you know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an Idolater,