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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.
2. Secret reserves in closing with Christ. To forsake all for Christ, to hate father and mother, yea, and a mans own life for him, this is a hard saying, Luke 14. 26. Some will do much, but they will not ⟨p. 78⟩be of the Religion that will undo them; they never come to be entirely devoted to Christ, nor fully to resign to him: They must have the sweet sin: They mean to do themselves no harm: They have secret exceptions, for Life, Liberty, or Estate. Many take Christ thus hand over head, and never consider his self denying terms, nor cast up the cost; and this error in the foundation mars all, and secretly ruins them for ever, Luke 14. 28. Mat. 13. 21.
2. Secret reserves in closing with Christ. To forsake all for Christ, to hate father and mother, yea, and a mans own life for him, this is a hard saying, Luke 14. 26. Some will do much, but they will not ⟨p. 78⟩be of the Religion that will undo them; they never come to be entirely devoted to Christ, nor fully to resign to him: They must have the sweet sin: They mean to do themselves no harm: They have secret exceptions, for Life, Liberty, or Estate. Many take Christ thus hand over head, and never consider his self denying terms, nor cast up the cost; and this error in the foundation marrs all, and secretly ruins them for ever, Luke 14. 28. Mat. 13. 21.
3. Formality in Religion. Many stick in the bark, and rest in the outside of Religion, and in the external performances of holy duties,