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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.
But I shall more particularly show the necessity of Conversion in five things: for without this,
But I shall more particularly shew the necessity of Conversion in five things: for without this,
1. Thy being is in vain. Is it not pity thou shouldst be good for nothing, an unprofitable burden of the earth, a wart, or wen in the body of the universe. Thus thou art, while unconverted, for thou canst not answer the end of thy being. Is it not for the divine pleasure thou art and wert created, Rev. 4. 11. Did not he make thee for himself, Prov. 16. 4. Art thou a man, and hast thou reason? Why then bethink thy self, why, and whence thy being is. Behold Gods workmanship in thy body, and ask thy self, to what end did God rear this fabric? Consider the noble faculties of thy Heaven-born soul: to what end did God bestow these excellencies? To no other, than that thou shouldst please thy self, and gratify thy senses. Did God send men like the swallows, into the world, only to gather a few sticks and dirt, and build their nests, and breed up their young, and then away? The very heathens could see further than this. Art thou so fearfully and wonderfully made, Psal. 139. 14. and dost thou not yet think with thy self, surely it was for some noble and raised end?
1. Thy being is in vain. Is it not pity thou shouldst be good for nothing, an unprofitable burden of the earth, a wart, or wen in the body of the universe. Thus thou art, while unconverted, for thou canst not answer the end of thy being. Is it not for the divine pleasure thou art and wert created, Rev. 4. 11. Did not he make thee for himself, Prov. 16. 4. Art thou a man, and hast thou reason? Why then bethink thy self, why, and whence thy being is. Behold Gods workmanship in thy body, and ask thy self, to what end did God rear this fabrick? Consider the noble faculties of thy Heaven-born soul: to what end did God bestow these excellencies? To no other, than that thou shouldst please thy self, and gratifie thy senses. Did God send men like the swallows, into the world, only to gather a few sticks and dirt, and build their nests, and breed up their young, and then away? The very heathens could see further than this. Art thou so fearfully and wonderfully made,