A26701:284
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.
Sinner, methinks this should go like a dagger to thine heart, to know that God is thine enemy. Oh whither wilt thou go, where wilt thou shelter thee? There is no hope for thee unless thou lay down thy weapons, and sue out thy pardon, and get Christ to stand thy friend, and make thy peace. If it were not for this, thou mightest go into some howling wilderness, and there pine in sorrow, and run mad for anguish of heart and horrible despair. But in Christ there is a possibility of mercy for thee, yea a proffer of mercy to thee, that thou mayest have God to be more for thee, than he is now against thee. But if thou wilt not forsake thy sins, nor turn throughly and to purpose unto God, by a sound Conversion, the wrath of God abideth on thee, and he proclaims himself to be against thee, as in the Prophet Ezek. 5. 8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I even I am against thee.
Sinner, methinks this should go like a dagger to thine heart, to know that God is thine enemy. Oh whither wilt thou go, where wilt thou shelter thee? There is no hope for thee unless thou lay down thy weapons, and sue out thy pardon, and get Christ to stand thy friend, and make thy peace. If it were not for this, thou mightest go into some howling wilderness, and there pine in sorrow, and run mad for anguish of heart and horrible despair. But in Christ there is a possibility of mercy for thee, yea a proffer of mercy to thee, that thou maist have God to be more for thee, than he is now against thee. But if thou wilt not forsake thy sins, nor turn throughly and to purpose unto God, by a sound Conversion, the wrath of God abideth on thee, and he proclaims himself to be against thee, as in the Prophet Ezek. 5. 8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I even I am against thee.
I. His face is against thee, Psal. 34. 16. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them. Woe unto them whom God shall set his face against. When he did but look upon the host of the Egyptians, how terrible was the consequence?