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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.
8. The predominant love of the World. This is the sure evidence of an unsanctified heart, Mar. 10. 37. 1 John 2. 15.
8. The predominant love of the World. This is the sure evidence of an unsanctified heart, Mar. 10. 37. 1 Iohn 2. 15.
But how close doth this sin lurk oft-times under a fair covert of forward profession? Luke 8. 14. Yea such a power of deceit is there in this sin, that many times when every body else can see the man's worldliness, and covetousness, he cannot see it himself, but hath so many colours, and excuses, and pretences for his eagerness, on the world, that he doth blind his own eyes, and perish in his self-deceit. How many professors be here, with whom the world hath more of their hearts and affections than Christ? Who mind earthly things, and thereby are evidently after the flesh, and like to end in destruction? Rom. 8. 5. Phil. 3. 19. Yet ask these men; and they will tell you confidently, they prize Christ above all, God forbid else! and see not their own earthly mindedness for want of a narrow observation of the workings of their own hearts. Did they but carefully search, they would quickly find that their greatest content is in the world, Luke 12. 19. and their greatest care and main endeavour to get and secure the world, which are the certain discovery of an unconverted sinner. May the professing ⟨p. 81⟩