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A26695 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. Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668. 1688 (1688) Wing A977; ESTC R28088 129,275 198

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in this condition is to make thy Saviour to become a Sinner and to do more wrong to the infinite Majesty than all the wicked on Earth or Devils in Hell ever did or could And yet wilt thou not give up such a blasphemous hope II. Against his word We need not say Who shall ascend into Heaven to bring down Christ from above Or who shall descend into the deep to bring up Christ from beneath The word is nigh us Rom. 10. 6 7 8. Are you agreed that Christ shall end the controversie Hear then his own words Except you be converted you shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 18. 3. You must be born again John 3. 7. If I wash thee not thou hast no part in me John 13. 8. Repent or perish Luke 13. 3. One word one would think were enough from Christ but how often and earnestly doth he reiterate it verily verily verily verily except a man be born again he shall not see the Kingdom of God Iohn 3. 3 5. Yea he doth not only assert but prove the necessity of the new birth viz. from the fleshliness and filthiness of man's first birth Iohn 3. 6. by reason of which man is no more fit for Heaven than the Beast is for the Chamber of the Kings presence And wil● thou yet believe thine own presumptuous confidence directly against Christs words He must go quite against the Law of his Kingdom and Rule of his Judgment to save thee in this estate III. Against his Oath He hath lifted up his hand to heaven he hath sworn that those that remain in unbelief and know not his ways that is are ignorant of them or disobedient to them shall not enter into his rest Psalm 95. 11. Heb. 3. 18. and wilt thou not yet believe O sinner that he is in earnest Canst thou hope he will be forsworn for thee The Covenant of Grace is confirmed by an Oath and sealed by blood Heb. 6. 17. Heb. 9. 16 18 19. Mat. 26. 28. But all must be made void and another way to heaven found out if thou be saved living and dying unsanctified God is come to his lowest and last terms with man and hath condescended as far as with honour he could hath set up his Pillars with a Ne plus ultra Men cannot be saved while unconverted except they could get another Covenant made and the whole frame of the Gospel which was established for ever with such dreadful solemnities quite altered and would not this be a distracted hope IV. Against his honour God will so shew his love to the sinner as withal to shew his hatred to sin Therefore he that names the name of Jesus must depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. and deny all ungodliness and he that hath hope of life by Christ must purifie himself as he is pure 1 Iohn 3. 3. Tit. 2. 12. otherwise Christ would be thought a favourer of sin The Lord Jesus would have all the world to know though he pardon sin he will not protect it If holy David shall say Depart from me all you workers of iniquity Psal. 6. 8. and shall shut the doors against them Psal. 101. 7. shall not such much more expect it from Christs holiness Would it be for his honour to have the dogs to the table or to lodge the swine with his children or to have Abraham's bosom to be a nest of Vipers V. Against his Offices God hath exalted him to be a Prince and a Saviour Acts 5. 31. he should act against both should he save men in their sins It is the Office of a King. Parcere subjectis debellare superbos To be a terrer to evil doers and a praise to them that do well Rom. 13. 3 4. He is a Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath on him that doth evil Now should Christ favour the ungodly so continuing and take those to reign with him that would not that he should reign over them Luke 19. 27. this were quite against his Office He therefore reigns that he may put his enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 15. 25. now should he lay them in his bosom he should cross the end of his regal power It belongs to Christ as a King to subdue the hearts and slay the lusts of his chosen Psalm 45. 5. Psalm 110. 3. What King would take the rebels in open hostility into his Court What were this but to betra● Life Kingdom Government and all together If Christ be a King he must have homage honour sub●ection c. Ma● 1. 6. Now to save men while in their natural enmity were to obscure his Dignity lose his Authority bring contempt on his Government and sell his dear-bought rights for nought Again as Christ should not be a Prince so neither a Saviour if he should do this For his Salvation is spiritual he is called Jesus because he saves his people from their sins Mat. 1. 21. So that should he save them in their sins he should be neither Lord nor Jesus To save men from the punishment and not from the power of sin were to do his work by halves and be an imperfect Saviour His Office as the Deliverer is to turn away ungodliness from Jacob Rom. 11. 26. He is sent to bless men in turning them from their iniquities Acts 3. 26. to make an end of sin Dan. 9. 24. so that he should destroy his own designs and nullifie his offices to save men abiding in their unconverted estate Application Arise then what meanest thou O sleeper Awake O secure sinner left thou be consumed in thine iniquities Say as the Lepers If we sit here we shall die 2 Kings 7. 3 4. Verily it is not more certain that thou art now out of hell than that thou shalt speedily be in it except thou repent and be converted there is but this one door for thee to escape by Arise then O sluggard and shake off thine excuses How long wilt thou slumber and fold thine hands to sleep Prov. 6. 10 11. Wilt thou lie down in the midst of the Sea or sleep on the top of the mast Prov. 23. 34. There is no remedy but thou must either turn or burn There is an unchangeable necessity of the change of thy condition except thou art resolved to abide the worst of it and try it out with the Almighty If thou lovest thy life O man arise and come away Methinks I see the Lord Jesus laying the merciful hands of an holy violence upon thee methinks he carries it like the Angels to Let Gen. 19. 15 c. Then the Angels ●●●st●ned Lot saying Arise lest thou be consumed And while ●he ling●ed the men laid hold upon his hand the Lord being mercifull unto him and they brought him without the City and said Escape for thy life stay not in all the plain escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed Oh how willful will thy destruction be if thou shouldest yet harden thy self in thy