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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.
10. Unmortified Pride. When men love the praise of men, more than the praise of God; and set their hearts upon mens esteem• applause and approbation, it is most certain they are yet in their sins, and strangers to true conversion. John 12. 43. Gal. 1. 10. When men see not, nor complain of, nor groan under the pride of their own hearts, it's a sign they ⟨p. 82⟩are stark dead in sin. O how secretly doth this sin live and reign in many hearts, and they know it not, but are very strangers to themselves! John 9. 40.
10. Unmortified Pride. When men love the praise of men, more than the praise of God; and set their hearts upon mens esteem• applause and approbation, it is most certain they are yet in their sins, and strangers to true conversion. Iohn 12. 43. Gal. 1. 10. When men see not, nor complain of, nor groan under the pride of their own hearts, it's a sign they ⟨p. 82⟩are stark dead in sin. O how secretly doth this sin live and reign in many hearts, and they know it not, but are very strangers to themselves! Iohn 9. 40.
11. The prevailing love of pleasure, 2 Tim. 3. 4. This is a black mark. When men give the flesh the liberty that it craves, and pamper, and please it, and do not deny and restrain it: when their great delight is in gratifying their bellies, and pleasing their senses; whatever appearance they may have of Religion, all is unsound,