A25470:848
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Direction.
Get a true Conviction concerning thy own ultimate end and happiness, Where it lies? viz. not in the objects of sense, but in the Beatifical vision of God; possess thy soul by Scripture light,1 of the grand importance of securing thy Interest therein; while you think your happiness lies any where else than in God, it will be irrational to love Christ, because his purpose and design is to take our hearts from the pursuit of all but God: And until you know God to be your happiness, you will never understand the best reasons (that I may not say, the only) that you have to love him. That man loves Christ best, that most fully knows God to be his eternal rest and blessedness, and loves him as such.
Get a true Conviction concerning thy own ultimate end and happiness, Where it lies? viz. not in the objects of sense, but in the Beatifical vision of God; possesse thy soul by Scripture light,1 of the grand importance of securing thy Interest therein; while you think your happiness lyes any where else than in God, it will be irrational to love Christ, because his purpose and design is to take our hearts from the pursuit of all but God: And until you know God to bee your happiness, you will never understand the best reasons (that I may not say, the only) that you have to love him. That man loves Christ best, that most fully knows God to be his eternal rest and blessedness, and loves him as such.