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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.
Shall I ring his knell, or read his sentence, or sound in his ear, the terrible trump of Gods Judgments, that one would think should make both his ears to tingle, and strike him into Belshazzar's fit, even to appal his countenance, and loose his joints, and make his knees smite one against another? Yet alas! he perceives me not, he hath no ears to hear. Or shall I call up all the Daughters of Music, and sing the Song of Moses, and of the Lamb? yet he will not be stirred. Shall I allure him with the joyful sound, and the lovely Song, and glad tidings of the Gospel? with the most sweet and inviting calls, comforts, cordials, of the divine promises, so exceeding great and precious, it will not affect him savingly, unless I could find him ears, Mat. 13. 15. as well as tell him the news.
Shall I ring his knell, or read his sentence, or sound in his ear, the terrible trump of Gods Judgments, that one would think should make both his ears to tingle, and strike him into Belshazzar's fit, even to appale his countenance, and loose his joynts, and make his knees smite one against another? Yet alas! he perceives me not, he hath no ears to hear. Or shall I call up all the Daughters of Musick, and sing the Song of Moses, and of the Lamb? yet he will not be stirred. Shall I allure him with the joyful sound, and the lovely Song, and glad tidings of the Gospel? with the most sweet and inviting calls, comforts, cordials, of the divine promises, so exceeding great and precious, it will not affect him savingly, unless I could find him ears, Mat. 13. 15. as well as tell him the news.
Shall I set before him the feast of fat things, the wine of wisdom, the bread of God, the tree of life, the hidden Manna? he hath no appetite for them, no mind to them, 1 Cor. 2. 14. Mat. 22. 5. Should I press the choicest grapes, the heavenly clusters of Gospel privileges, and drink to him in the richest wine of Gods own cellar, yea of his own side, or set before him the delicious honey-comb of Gods Testimonies,