Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.
Joseph AlleineThe right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election. If you cannot yet prove it, set upon a present and thorough turning. Whatever purposes be, which are secret, I am sure His promises are plain. How desperately do rebels argue! "If I am elected I shall be saved, do what I will. If not, I shall be damned, do what I can." Perverse sinner, will you begin where you should end?
Joseph AlleineTwo sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.
Joseph AlleineThe Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.
Joseph Alleine