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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.
VI. The furnace of eternal vengeance is heated ready for thee, Isa. 30. 33. Hell and destruction open their mouths upon thee, they gape for thee, they groan for thee, Isa. 5. 14. waiting as it were with a greedy eye, as thou standest upon the brink, when thou wilt drop in. If the wrath of a man be as the roaring of a Lion, Prov. 20. 2. more heavy than the sand, Prov. 27. 3. what is the wrath of the infinite God? If the burning furnace heated in Nebuchadnezzar's fiery rage, when he commanded it to be made yet seven times hotter, were so fierce as to burn up even those that drew near it, to throw the three children in Dan. 3. 19, 22. How hot is that burning Oven of the Almighty's fury? Mal. 4. 1. Surely this is seventy times seven more fierce. What thinkest thou, O man, of being a saggo•in Hell to all eternity? Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with thee, saith the Lord of Hosts? Ezek. 22. 14. Canst thou dwell with everlasting burnings? Canst thou abide the consuming fire? Isa 33. 4. When thou shalt be as a glowing Iron in Hell, and thy whole body and soul shall be as perfectly possessed by Gods burning vengeance, as the fiery sparkling Iron, when heated in the •iercest forge? Thou canst not bear God's whip, how then wilt thou endure his scorpions? Thou art even crushed, and ready to with thy self dead, under the weight of his finger, how then wilt thou bear the weight of his loins? The most patient man that ever was, did curse the day that ever he was born, Job 3. 1. and even wish death to come and end his misery, Job 7. 15, 16. when God did but let out one little drop of his wrath. How then wilt thou endure when