A26701:127
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.
Secondly, it turns the bias of the Will, both as to means and end (1.) The intension of the wist ⟨p. 30⟩is altered, Ezek. 36. 26. Jer. 31. 33. Isaiah 26. 8, 9. Now the man hath new ends and designs. Now he intends God above all, and desires and designs nothing in all the world so much, as that Christ may be magnified in him, Phil. 1. 20. He accounts himself more happy in this, than in all that the earth could yield, that he may be serviceable to Christ, and bring him glory in his generation. This is the Mark he aims at, that the name of Jesus may be great in the world, and that all the sheaves of his brethren may bow to this sheaf.
Secondly, it turns the byass of the Will, both as to means and end (1.) The intension of the wist ⟨p. 30⟩is altered, Ezek. 36. 26. Ier. 31. 33. Esay 26. 8, 9. Now the man hath new ends and designs. Now he intends God above all, and desires and designs nothing in all the world so much, as that Christ may be magnified in him, Phil. 1. 20. He accounts himself more happy in this, than in all that the earth could yield, that he may be serviceable to Christ, and bring him glory in his generation. This is the Mark he aims at, that the name of Jesus may be great in the world, and that all the sheaves of his brethren may bow to this sheaf.
Reader, dost thou view this and never ask thy self, whether it be thus with thee? Pause a while, and breathe on this great concernment.