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The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /
The way to true happiness in a serious treatise / by Joseph Alleine.
London : Printed and are to be sold by Nevil Simmons, 1678
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
So then it is a work above mans power. We are born, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man; but of God. John 1. 31. Never think thou canst convert thy self. If ever thou wouldst be savingly converted, thou must despair of doing it in thine own strength. Jer. 31. 18. It is a Resurrection from the dead, Rev. 20. 5. Eph. 1. 2. a new creation, Gal. 6. 15. Eph. 2. 10. a work of absolute omnipotency: Eph. 1. 19. Are these out of the reach of humane power? If thou hast no more than thou hadst by thy first birth, a good nature, a meek and chaste temper, &c. thou art a very stranger to true conversion. This is a supernatural work.
So then it is a work above mans power. We are born, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man; but of God. Iohn 1. 31. Never think thou canst convert thy self. If ever thou wouldst be savingly converted, thou must despair of doing it in thine own strength. Ier. 31. 18. It is a Resurrection from the dead, Rev. 20. 5. Eph. 1. 2. a new creation, Gal. 6. 15. Eph. 2. 10. a work of absolute omnipotency: Eph. 1. 19. Are these out of the reach of humane power? If thou hast no more than thou hadst by thy first birth, a good nature, a meek and chast temper, &c. thou art a very stranger to true conversion. This is a supernatural work.