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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.
How light soever you may make of it now, you will one day find the guilt of unpardoned sin to be a heavy burden. This is a millstone that whosoever falleth upon it shall be broken, but upon whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. Mat. 21. 44. What work did it make with our Saviour? It pressed the very blood (to a wonder) out of his veins, and broke all his bones: and if it did this in the green tree, what will it do in the dry?
How light soever you may make of it now, you will one day find the guilt of unpardoned sin to be a heavy burden. This is a milstone that whosoever falleth upon it shall be broken, but upon whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. Mat. 21. 44. What work did it make with our Saviour? It pressed the very blood (to a wonder) out of his veins, and broke all his bones: and if it did this in the green tree, what will it do in the dry?
Oh think of thy case in time. Canst thou think of that threat without trembling, Ye shall die in your sins, Joh. 8. 24. Oh better were it for thee to die in a goal, die in a ditch, in a dungeon, than die in thy sins. If death, as it will take away all thy other comforts, would take away thy sins too, it were some mitigation. But thy sins will follow thee, when thy friends leave thee, and all worldly enjoyments shake hands with thee. Thy sins will not die with thee, 2 Cor. 5. 10. Rev. 20. 12. as a prisoners ⟨p. 124⟩others debts will; but they will to judgement with thee, there to be thine accusers; and they will to hell with thee, there to be thy tormentors. Better to have so many fiends and furies about thee, than thy sins to fall upon thee and fasten in thee. Oh the work that these will make with thee! Oh look over thy debts in time! How much art thou in the books of every one of Gods laws? How is every one of Gods commandments ready to arrest thee, and take thee by the throat for innumerable bonds that it hath upon thee? What wilt thou then do, when they shall altogether lay it in against thee? Hold open the eyes of conscience to consider this, that thou mayest despair of thy self, and be driven to Christ, and fly for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope that is set before thee.