Required reading
Sure Guide to Heaven (Puritan Paperbacks) by Joseph Alleine (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Chapter 7 (the whole chapter)
My notes and thoughts
Alleine is not finished. Just in case there are some still reading who have not been converted, he provides five final reasons for why they should be.
1) God graciously invites you.
2) Doors of heaven are open.
3) Unspeakable privileges in this life. I like these lines: '...He will not only save from misery, but install you unto unspeakable prerogatives. He will bestow Himself upon you; He will be a Friend and a Father unto you. He will be a Sun and a Shield to you. In a word, He will be a God to you. And what more can be said? What may you expect that a God should do for you, and be to you? That He will be, that He will do.'
4) His terms are low: 'God does not impose anything unreasonable or impossible as a condition of life, upon you...He expects nothing but that you should accept His Son, and He shall be righteousness and redemption to you.'
5) God offers all needed grace.
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