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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.
I have told you our motives: I have told you ⟨image 5⟩our business and the terms of our undertaking. It is God and you sinners that next must tell us what our entertainment and success shall be. Shall it be still neglect, and unthankful contempt, and turning away your ear and heart, and saying, we have somewhat else to mind? Will you still be cheated by this deceiving World? And spend all your days in pampering your guts, and providing for your flesh that must lie rotting very shortly in a Grave? Were you made for no better work than this? May not we bring you to some sober thoughts of your condition, nor one hour seriously to think whither you are going? What! not to one awakened look into the World where you must be for ever? Nor one heart-raising thought of the everlasting Glory? Not one heart-piercing thought of all your Saviours love, nor one •ear for all your sinful lives? O God forbid: Let not our labour be so despised. Let not your God, your Saviour, and your souls be set so light by. O let there be no profane person among you like Esau, who for one morsel sold his birth-right.
I have told you our motives: I have told you ⟨image 5⟩our business and• the terms of our undertaking. It is God and you sinners that next must tell us what our entertainment and success shall be. Shall it be still neglect, and unthankful contempt, and turning away your ear and heart, and saying, we have somewhat else to mind? Will you still be cheated by this deceiving World? And spend all your days in pampering your guts, and providing for your flesh that must lie rotting very shortly in a Grave? Were you made for no better work than this? May not we bring you to some sober thoughts of your condition, nor one hour seriously to think whither you are going? What! not to one awakened look into the World where you must be for ever? Nor one heart-raising thought of the everlasting Glory? Not one heart-piercing thought of all your Saviours love, nor one •ear for all your sinful lives? O God forbid: Let not our labour be so despised. Let not your God, your Saviour, and your souls be set so light by. O let there be no profane person among you like Esau, who for one morsel sold his birth-right.