Joseph Alleine

"...whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company , in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved…"

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

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

"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."

"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 …"

"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 C…"

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