The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

This must be premised, before we proceed to the discovery, that it is most certain men may have a confident persuasion, that their hearts and states be good, and yet be unsound. Hear the Truth himself, who shows in Laodicea's ⟨p. 88⟩case, that men may be wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, and yet know it not; yea they may be confident they are rich and increased in grace. Rev. 3. 17. There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness, Prov. 30. 12. who better persuaded of his case, than Paul, while yet he remained unconverted? Rom. 7. 9. So that they are miserably deceived, that take a strong confidence, for a sufficient evidence. They that have no better proof, than barely a strong persuasion, that they are converted, are certainly, as yet, strangers to Conversion.

This must be premised, before we proceed to the discovery, that it is most certain men may have a confident perswasion, that their hearts and states be good, and yet be unsound. Hear the Truth himself, who shews in Laodicea's ⟨p. 88⟩case, that men may be wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, and yet know it not; yea they may be confident they are rich and increased in grace. Rev. 3. 17. There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness, Prov. 30. 12. who better perswaded of his case, than Paul, while yet he remained unconverted? Rom. 7. 9. So that they are miserably deceived, that take a strong confidence, for a sufficient evidence. They that have no better proof, than barely a strong perswasion, that they are converted, are certainly, as yet, strangers to Conversion.