Required reading
Sure Guide to Heaven (Puritan Paperbacks) by Joseph Alleine (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Chapter 5 completed (point 4 to the end of the chapter)
My notes and thoughts
Alleine continues with listing the miseries of the unconverted.
4) Guilt of all your sins lies like a mountain upon you.
5) Your raging lusts miserably enslave you. Excellent illustration for this point: 'Would it not pierce your heart to see a company of poor creatures drudging and toiling to carry together faggots and fuel for their own burning?' But that is what they do by carrying on in their sin, they are making hell hotter and hotter for themselves.
6) The furnace of eternal vengeance is heated ready for you
7) The law discharges all its threats and curses at you
8) The gospel itself binds the sentence of eternal damnation upon you
One word for this chapter: confronting. I was once told that I should not use the 2nd person pronoun in my preaching as it is offensive. Alleine knows no such limitation - I'd be interested to know how many times he uses 'you' and 'your' in the chapter. Punch after punch is laid to scare the reader into submission to Christ. I'm starting to wish I'd heard this guy preach!
I learnt a new word from this chapter: 'cockatrice'.
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