Quotes from Joseph Alleine

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

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.

For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

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.

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

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

A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

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.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

...with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice

...whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company (Proverbs 13:20), in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.

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

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.

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils"

Now the soul says, 'Lord, where shall I go? You have the words of eternal life.' [John 6: 68] Here he centers, here he settles. It is the entrance of heaven to him; he sees his interest in God.

In every sound convert the judgement 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.

Almsgiving is not a service of God, but of vain-glory, if it spring not from divine love.

The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.