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.

- 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…

- Joseph Alleine

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 …

- Joseph Alleine

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 hi…

- 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.

- Joseph Alleine

Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but…

- Joseph Alleine

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

- Joseph Alleine

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

- Joseph Alleine

It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled …

- Joseph Alleine