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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.
Those Jews in the Prophet seemed as well resolved as any in the world, and called God to witness, that they meant as they said: But they stuck in generals. When Gods command crosses their inclination, they will not obey, Jer. 42. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. compared with Chap. 43. v. 2. Take the Assemblies larger Catechism, and see their excellent and most compendious exposition of the Commandments, and put thy heart to it. Art thou resolved in the strength of Christ, to set upon the conscientious practice of every duty that thou findest to be there required of thee, and to set against every sin that thou findest there forbidden? This is the way to be found in Gods statutes, that thou mayest never be ashamed, Psal. 119. 80. Thirdly, Observe the special duties that thy heart is most against, and the special sins that 'tis most inclined unto, and see whether it be truly resolved to perform the one, and forgo the other. What sayest thou to thy bosom sin, thy gainful sin? What sayest thou to costly and hazardous, and flesh displeasing duties? If thou hal• est here, and dost not resolve, by the grace of God, to cross thy flesh, and put to it, thou art unsound, Psal. 18. 23. Psal. 119. 6.
Those Jews in the Prophet seemed as well resolved as any in the world, and call'd God to witness, that they meant as they said: But they stuck in generals. When Gods command crosses their inclination, they will not obey, Ier. 42. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. compared with Chap. 43. v. 2. Take the Assemblies larger Catechism, and see their excellent and most compendious exposition of the Commandments, and put thy heart to it. Art thou resolved in the strength of Christ, to set upon the conscientious practice of every duty that thou findest to be there required of thee, and to set against every sin that thou findest there forbidden? This is the way to be found in Gods statutes, that thou maist never be ashamed, Psal. 119. 80. Thirdly, Observe the special duties that thy heart is most against, and the special sins that 'tis most inclin'd unto, and see whether it be truly resolved to perform the one, and forgo the other. What sayest thou to thy bosom sin, thy gainful sin? What sayest thou to costly and hazardous, and flesh displeasing duties? If thou hal est here, and dost not resolve, by the grace of God, to cross thy flesh, and put to it, thou art unsound,