Joseph Alleine: Sin

Joseph Alleine was Pastor, author. Explore interesting quotes on sin.
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“A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.”

Joseph Alleine

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 540.

God , Justice

“Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.”

Joseph Alleine

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 551.

God

“The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.”

Joseph Alleine

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 86.

World , Christ

“In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.”

Joseph Alleine

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 163.

Life , God , Pleasure , World

“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

Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted aka A Sure Guide to Heaven (first published 1671), P. 143.

World , Peace

“If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.”

Joseph Alleine

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 327.

Hope