A26695:263
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.
6. A secret enmity against the strictness of Religion. Many moral persons, punctual in their formal devotion, have yet a bitter enmity against preciseness, and hate the life and power of Religion, Phil. 3. 6. compared with Acts 9. 1. They like not this frowardness, nor that men should keep such a stir in Religion. They condemn the strictness of Religion, as singularity, ⟨p. 80⟩indiscretion, and intemperate zeal, and with them a lively Preacher, or lively Christian, is but a heady fellow. These men love not holiness, as holiness, (for then they would love the height of holiness) and therefore are undoubtedly rotten at heart, whatever good opinion they have of themselves.
7. The resting in a certain pitch of Religion. When they have so much as will save them (as they suppose) they look no further, and so show themselves short of true Grace, which will ever put men upon aspiring to further perfection. Phil. 3. 13. Pro. 4. 18.
7. The resting in a certain pitch of Religion. When they have so much as will save them (as they suppose) they look no further, and so shew themselves short of true Grace, which will ever put men upon aspiring to further perfection. Phil. 3. 13. Pro. 4. 18.