Required reading
Sure Guide to Heaven (Puritan Paperbacks) by Joseph Alleine (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Chapter 2 (point 5)
My notes and thoughts
Good answer for the hypercalvinist: 'You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election...What can be plainer? Do not stand stilll disputing about your election, but set to repenting and believing.' I do think we need to encourage people to repent and believe before engaging in debates about predestination.
I appreciate his little challenges to the reader throughout. E.g. '(O man, do you read this, and never stop to examine yourself?)' His concern for the reader's soul is quite evident. Why don't books today do this more?
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