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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.
1. Personal godliness. Let it be your first care to set up Christ in your hearts. See that you make all your worldly interests to stoop to him, that you be entirely and unreservedly devoted unto him. If you wilfully, and deliberately, and ordinarily harbour any sin, you are undone, Psal 68. 21. Ezek. 18. 20. See that you unfeignedly take the Laws of Christ, as the ⟨p. 177⟩rule of your words, thoughts, and actions; and subject your whole man, members and mind faithfully to him, Psal. 119. 34. Rom. 6. 13. If you have not a true respect to all Gods Commandments, you are unsound at heart. Psal. 119. 6. Oh study to get the Image and impress of Christ upon you within. Begin with your hearts, else you build without a foundation. Labour to get a saving change within! or else all external performances will be to no purpose. And then study to show forth the power of godliness in the life. Let Piety be your first and great business. 'Tis the highest point of Justice, to give God his due. Beware that none of you be a Prayer-less person; for that is a most certain discovery of a Christless and a graceless person of one that is a very Stranger to the fear of God. Psal. 14. 4. I•b 15. 4. Suffer not your Bibles to gather dust. See that you converse daily with the word, John 5. 39. That man can never lay claim to blessedness, whose delight is not in the Law of the Lord, Psal. 1. 1, 2. Let meditation and self-examination be your daily exercise.
1. Personal godliness. Let it be your first care to set up Christ in your hearts. See that you make all your worldly interests to stoop to him, that you be entirely and unreservedly devoted unto him. If you wilfully, and deliberately, and ordinarily harbour any sin, you are undone, Psal 68. 21.