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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.
2. Let every person in your families be duly called to an account, of their profiting by the word heard or read, as they be about doing your own business. This is a duty of consequence unspeakable, and would be a means to bring those under your charge, to remember ⟨p. 179⟩and profit by what they receive. See Christs example in calling his family to an account, Mat. 16, 11, 13, 15.
3. Often take an account of the souls under your care, concerning their Spiritual estates; [Herein you must be followers of Christ. Mat. 13. 10, 36, 51. •ark 4 10, 11.] make inquiry into their conditions, insist much upon the sinfulness and misery of their natural estate, and upon the necessity of regeneration and conversion, in order to their salvation. Admonish them gravely of their sins, encourage beginnings. Follow them earnestly, and let them have no quiet for you, till you see them in a saving change. This is a duty of high consequence, but (I am afraid) fearfully neglected. Doth not Conscience say, thou art the Man?
4. Look to the strict sanctifying of the Sabbath by all your households, Exod. 20. 19. Lev. 23. 3. Many poor families have little time else. O improve but your Sabbath days as diligently in labouring for knowledge, and doing your Makers work, as you do the other days in doing your own work, and I doubt not but you may come to some proficiency.