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Joseph Alleine Quotes
JOSEPH ALLEINE (1634-1668ad), English Puritan Divine, Pastor and Preacher.
"O how many poor souls doth this sin kill in the dark! While they think verily they have good hearts, and are in the ready way to heaven! This is the murderer that despatches thousands in a silent manner, when they suspect nothing. Ah! Would it not have grieved a man's heart to have seen the woeful spectacle, when the poor Protestants were shut up (a multitude together) in a barn, and a butcher comes, and leads them one by one (blindfold) to a block, where he slew them one after another? But how much more should your hearts bleed to think of the hundreds in great congregations, that wilful ignorance doth butcher in secret, and leads blindfold to the block? Beware this be not your case; make no plea for ignorance; if you spare that sin, know that it will not spare you."
read online: "An Alarm to the Unconverted Sinners" by Joseph Alleine
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The Senseless Ways of Mankind:
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"How unbelievingly, carelessly, and senselessly most men live on earth, as if there were no such difference in another world ... No one driveth or forceth them to hell, and will they go thither of themselves? ... Did you but see yourselves, what we see by faith, (believing God) and at once behold the saints in heaven, the lost despairing souls in hell, and the senseless, sensual sinners on earth, that will lay none of this to heart, surely it would make you wonder at the stupidity of mankind."
read online: "An Alarm to the Unconverted Sinners" by Joseph Alleine
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Vain Trust in Baptism, Ordinances and Rituals:
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"Many wear the livery of Christ, that yet never stand to their colours, nor follow their Leader. Ananias and Sapphira were baptized as well as the rest. How fondly do many mistake here, deceiving and being deceived! Dreaming that grace is necessarily tied to the external administration of baptism, and so every infant shall be regenerated, not only sacramentally, but really and properly. Hence men fancy that, being regenerated already when baptized, they need no farther work. Friends and brethren, be not deceived; God is not mocked; (Galatians 6:7.) Whether it be your baptism, or whatever else that you pretend, I tell you from the living God, that if any of you be prayerless persons, or unclean, or malicious, or covetous, or riotous, or a lover of evil company: in a word, if you are not holy, strict, and self-denying Christians, you cannot be saved."
read online: "An Alarm to the Unconverted Sinners" by Joseph Alleine
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Conversion isn't within Man's Power (John 1:13):
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“Conversion is a work above man's power. We are 'born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God' (John 1:13). Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead (Ephesians 2:1), a new creation (Galatians 6:15; Ephesians 2:10), a work of absolute omnipotence (Ephesians 1:19). Are not these out of the reach of human power? ... This is a supernatural work ... 'Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but of mercy he saved us' ... 'Of his own will he begat us' (James 1:18). We are chosen and called unto sanctification, not for it (Ephesians 1:4). God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn His stomach; He finds enough to provoke His loathing, but nothing to excite His love. Look back upon yourself, O Christian! Reflect upon your swinish nature, your filthy swill, your once beloved mire (2 Peter 2). Behold your slime and corruption ... How then should holiness and purity love you? ... Who but must needs cry, Grace! Grace! ... What but free grace could move God to love you.”
Joseph Alleine, "A Sure Guide to Heaven"
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Translation of "An Alarm to the Unconverted Sinners." Puritan Sermons on Repentance.
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