The conscience cannot be truly pacified until soundly purified (Heb 10:22). Cursed is that peace maintained in a way of sin (Deut 29:19-20). Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world: peace with sin, and peace in sin.
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671
Before conversion, the man made light of Christ, minded his farm, friends, merchandise, more than Christ; now, Christ is to him as his necessary food, his daily bread, the life of his heart, the staff of his life. His great desire is, that Christ may be magnified in him.
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671
It was a saying of the noble Roman when he has hasting with corn to the city in the famine and mariners were loath to set sail in foul weather, “It is necessary for us to sail—it is not necessary for us to live.” What is it that you count necessary?
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671
Conversion is not the taking upon us the profession of Christianity. Christianity is more than a name. If we will hear Paul, it does not lie in word, but in power (1 Cor. 4:20).
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671
But from where shall I fetch my arguments? With what shall win them? O that I could tell! I would write to them in tears, I would weep out every argument, I would empty my veins for ink, I would petition them on my knees. O thankful should I be if they would be prevailed with to repent and turn.
– Joseph Alleine –