The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Hast thou crucified thy flesh with its affections and lusts; and not only confessed, but forsaken thy sins; all sin in thy fervent desires, and the ordinary practise of every deliberate and wilful sin in thy life? If not, thou art yet unconverted. Doth not conscience fly in thy face, as thou readest, and tell thee that thou livest in away of lying for thy advantage, that thou usest deceit in thy calling, that there is some way of secret wantonness that thou livest in? why then, do not deceive thy self, thou art in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.

Hast thou crucified thy flesh with its affections and lusts; and not only confessed, but forsaken thy sins; all sin in thy servent desires, and the ordinary practise of every deliberate and wilful sin in thy life? If not, thou art yet unconverted. Doth not conscience fly in thy face, as thou readest, and tell thee that thou livest in away of lying for thy advantage, that thou usest deceit in thy calling, that there is some way of secret wantonness that thou livest in? why then, do not deceive thy self, thou art in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.

Doth not thy unbridled tongue, thy brutish intemperance, thy wicked company, thy neglect of prayer, of hearing and reading the word, now witness against thee, and say, We are thy works and we will follow thee? Or if I have not hit the right, doth not the bird within ⟨p. 42⟩tell them, there is such or such a way, that thou knowest to be evil, that yet for some carnal respect thou dost tolerate thy self in, and art willing to spare? If this be the case, thou art to this day unregenerate, and must be changed or condemned.

Doth not thy unbridled tongue, thy bruitish intemperance, thy wicked company, thy neglect of prayer, of hearing and reading the word, now witness against the, and say, We are thy works and we will follow thee? Or if I have not hit the right, doth not the bird within ⟨p. 42⟩