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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.
It was a passage of the Noble Roman, when he was hasting with Corn to the City in the […] mine, and the Mariners were loth to set sail in the foul weather, Necessarium est navigare, non est necessarium vivere. Our voyage is of more necessity than our lives. What is it that thou dost account necessary? Is thy Bread necessary? Is thy breath necessary? Then thy Conversion is much more necessary. Indeed, this is the Unum necessarium, the one thing necessary. Thine estate is not necessary: thou mayest sell all for the Pearl of great price, and yet be a gainer by the purchase. Mat. 13. 45. Thy life is not necessary: thou mayest part with it for Christ to infinite advantage. Thine esteem is not necessary: thou mayest be reproached for the name of Christ, and yet happy, yea much more happy in reproach, than in repute. 1 Pet. 4. 4. Mat. 5. 10, 11. But thy Conversion is necessary, thy damnation lies upon it, and is it not needful in so important a case to look about? Upon this one point depends thy making, or marring to all eternity.
It was a passage of the Noble Roman, when he was hasting with Corn to the City in the 〈…〉 mine, and the Mariners were loth to set sail in the foul weather, Necessarium est navigare, non est necessarium vivere. Our voyage is of more necessity than our lives. What is it that thou dost account necessary? Is thy Bread necessary? Is thy breath necessary? Then thy Conve•sion is much more necessary. Indeed, this is the Vnum necessarium, the one thing necessary. Thine estate is not necessary: thou maist sell all for the Pearl of great price, and yet be a gainer by the purchase. Mat. 13. 45. Thy life is not necessary: thou maist part with it for Christ to infinite advantage. Thine esteem is not necessary: thou maist be reproached for the name of Christ, and yet happy, yea much more happy in reproach, than in repute. 1 Pet. 4. 4. Mat. 5. 10, 11. But thy Conversion is necessary, thy damnation lies upon it, and is it not needful in so important a case to look about? Upon this one point depends thy making, or marring to all eternity.