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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.
The external mover is the merit and intercession of the blessed Jesus. He hath obtained gifts for the rebellious; Psal 68. 18. and through him it is, that God worketh in us, what is well pleasing in his sight, Heb. 13. 21. Through him are all spiritual blessings bestowed upon us in •••venly things, Eph. 1. 3. He intercedeth for the Elect, that believe not. Joh. 17. 20. Every Convert is the fruit of his travel. Isaiah, 53. 11. O never was infant born into the world with that difficulty, that Christ endured for us. How emphatically he groaneth in his travel? All the pains that he suffered on his Cross they were our birth pains, Act. 2. 24. [Greek or Hebrew] the pulls and throws that Christ endured for us. He is made sanctification to us, 1 Cor. 1. 30. He sanctified himself (that is set apart himself as a sacrifice) that we may be sanctified. John 17. 19. We are sanctified through the offering of his body once for all, Heb. 10. 10.
The external mover is the merit and intercession of the blessed Iesus. He hath obtained gifts for the rebe••ious; Psal 68. 18. and through him it is, that God worketh in us, what is well pleasing in his sight, Heb. 13. 21. Through him are all spiritual blessings bestowed upon us in •••venly things, Eph. 1. 3. He intercedeth for the Elect, that believe not. Ioh. 17. 20. Every Convert is the fruit of his travel. Esai, 53. 11. O never was infant born into the world with that difficulty, that Christ endured for us. How emphatically he groaneth in his travel? All the pains that he suffered on his Cross they were our birth pains,