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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.
Ans. Distinguish between sinners. 1. There are resolved sinners: their prayers God abhors. 2. Returning sinners; these God will come forth to, and meet with mercy, though yet afar off, Luke 15. 20. Though the prayers of the unsanctified cannot have full acceptance; yet God hath done much at the request of such, as at Ahab's humiliation, and Ninevehs Fast, 1 Kings 21. 26. Jonah 3. 8, 9, 10. Surely thou mayst go as far as these, though thou hast no grace: and how dost thou know but thou mayst speed in thy suit, as they did in theirs? Yea, is he not far more likely to grant thee, than them; since thou askest in the Name of Christ, and that not for temporal blessings, as they, but for things much more pleasing to him, viz. for Christ, Grace, Pardon, that thou mayst be justified, sanctified, renewed and fitted to serve him? Turn to these soul encouraging Scriptures, Prov. 2. 1, to 6. Luk. 11. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Prov. 8. 34. 35.
Ans. Distinguish between sinners. 1. There are resolved sinners: their prayers God abhors. 2. Returning sinners; these God will come forth to, and meet with mercy, though yet afar off, Luke 15. 20. Though the prayers of the unsanctified cannot have full acceptance; yet God hath done much at the request of such, as at Ahab's humiliation, and Ninevehs Fast, 1 Kings 21. 26. Ionah 3. 8, 9, 10. Surely thou mayst go as far as these, though thou hast no grace: and how dost thou know but thou mayst speed in thy suit, as they did in theirs? Yea, is he not far more likely to grant thee, than them; since thou askest in the Name of Christ, and that not for temporal blessings, as they, but for things much more pleasing to him, viz. for Christ, Grace, Pardon, that thou mayst be justified, sanctified, renewed and fitted to serve him? Turn to these soul incouraging Scriptures,