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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.
Is it not good comfort, that he calleth thee? Mark 10 49. Doth he set thee on the use of means, and dost thou think he will mock thee? Doubtless, he will not fail thee, if thou be not wanting to thy self. O pray and faint not, Luke 18. 1. A person of great Quality having offended the Duke of Buckingham, the Kings great Favourite, being admitted into his presence after long waiting, prostrates himself at his feet, saying, I am resolved never to ⟨p. 143⟩rise more, till I have obtained your Grace's favour, with which carriage he did overcome him. With such a resolution, do thou throw thy self at the feet of God. 'Tis for thy life, and therefore follow him, and give not over. Resolve thou wilt not be put off with bones, with common mercies. What though God do not presently open to thee? Is not grace worth the waiting for? Knock, and wait, and no doubt but sooner or later, mercy will come.
And this know, that thou hast the very same encouragement to seek and wait, that the Saints now in glory once had: for they were once in thy very case. And have they sped so well? and wilt thou not go to the same door, and wait upon God in the same course?
Direct. XV. Forsake thy evil Company, Prov. 9. 6. and forbear the occasions of sin, Prov. 23. 31. Thou wilt never be turned from sin till thou wilt decline and forego the temptations of sin.