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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.
An Earnest Invitation to Sinners to Turn to God in order to their Eternal Salvation.
Dearly Beloved, and longed for, I gladly acknowledge my self a debtor to you all, and am concerned, as I would be found a good Steward to the Household of God, to give to every one his Portion. But the Physician is most solicitous for those Patients, whose case is most doubtful and hazardous, and the Father's bowels are especially turned towards his dying Child. The numbers of the unconverted souls among you, call for my most earnest compassions and hasty diligence to pluck them out of the burning, Jude 23. and therefore to these first I shall apply my self in these lines.
DEarly Beloved, and longed for, I gladly acknowledge my self a debter to you all, and am concerned, as I would be found a good Steward to the Houshold of God, to give to every one his Portion. But the Physician is most solicitous for those Patients, whose case is most doubtful and hazardous, and the Father's bowels are especially turned towards his dying Child. The numbers of the unconverted souls among you, call for my most earnest compassions and hasty diligence to pluck them out of the burning, Iude 23. and therefore to these first I shall apply my self in these lines.
But whence shall I fetch my arguments, or how shall I choose my words? Lord, wherewith shall I woo them? wherewith shall I win them? Oh that I could but tell! I would write unto them in tears, would weep out every argument, I would empty my veins for Ink, I would petition them on my knees, verily (were I able) I would. O how thankful I would be, if they would be prevailed with to repent and turn.