Quotes by Joseph Alleine

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

— Joseph Alleine

  ​ 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

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

— Joseph Alleine

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.

— Joseph Alleine

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

— Joseph Alleine

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.

— Joseph Alleine