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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.
Chap. VII. Containing the Motives to Conversion.
Though what is already said of the Necessity of Conversion, and of the Miseries of the Unconverted, might be sufficient to induce ⟨p. 152⟩any considering mind to resolve upon a present Turning, or Conversion unto God: Yet knowing what a piece of desperate obstinacy and untractableness the heart of man naturally is, I have thought it necessary, to add to the means of Conversion and Directions for a Covenant-closure with God in Christ, some Motives to persuade you hereunto.
THough what is already said of the Necessity of Conversion, and of the Miseries of the Unconverted, might be sufficient to induce ⟨p. 152⟩any considering mind to resolve upon a present Turning, or Conversion unto God: Yet knowing what a piece of desperate obstinacy and untractableness the heart of man naturally is, I have thought it necessary, to add to the means of Conversion and Directions for a Covenant-closure with God in Christ, some Motives to perswade you hereunto.
O Lord, fail me not now at my last attempts. If any soul hath read hitherto, and be yet untouched, now Lord fasten in him and do thy work; Now take him by the heart, overcome him, persuade him, till he say• thou hast prevailed, for thou wast stronger than I. Lord; didst thou not make me a Fisher of men? And have I toiled all this while and caught nothing? Alas that I should have spent my strength for nought! And now I am casting my last; Lord Jesus, stand thou upon the Shore, and direct, how, and where I shall spread my Net, and let me so enclose with arguments the souls I seek for, that they may not be able to get out. Now Lord for a multitude of souls I Now for a full draught O Lord God, remember me I pray thee, and strengthen me this once, O God.