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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.
Behold, O ye sons of men, the Lord Jesus hath thrown open the prisons, and now he cometh to you (as the Magistrates once to them, Acts 16. 39.) and beseecheth you to come out. If it were from a Palace, or a Paradise that Christ did call you, it were no wonder if you were unwilling (and yet how easily was Adam tolled from thence?) but it is from your prison Sirs, from your Chains, from the Dungeon, from the Darkness that he calleth you, Isa. 42. 6, 7. and yet will you not come? He calleth you unto liberty, Gal. 5. 13. and yet will you not hearken? His Yoke is easy, his Laws are Liberty, his Service Freedom, Matth. 11. 30. James 1. 25. 1 Cor. 7. 22. and (whatever prejudices you have against his ways) if a God may be believed, you shall find them all pleasure and peace, and shall taste sweetness and joy unutterable, and take infinite delight and felicity in them, Prov. 3. 17. Psal. 119. 165. • Pet. 1. 8. Psal. 119. 103, 111.
Behold, O ye sons of men, the Lord Jesus hath thrown open the prisons, and now he cometh to you (as the Magistrates once to them, Acts 16. 39.) and beseecheth you to come out. If it were from a Palace, or a Paradise that Christ did call you, it were no wonder if you were unwilling (and yet how easily was Adam tolled from thence?) but it is from your prison Sirs, from your Chains, from the Dungeon, from the Darkness that he calleth you, Isa. 42. 6, 7