The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Dir. VI. Make a solemn choice of God for thy portion and blessedness, Deut. 26. 17. With all possible devotion and veneration avouch the Lord for thy God. Set the world with all its glory, and paint, and gallantry, with all its pleasures and promotions on the one hand, and set God with all his infinite excellencies and perfections on the other, and see that thou do deliberately make thy choice, Josh. 24. 15. Take up thy rest in God, Joh. 6. 68. Set thee down under his shadow, Cant. 2. 3. Let his promises and perfections turn the scale against all the world. Settle it upon thy heart, that the Lord is an all-sufficient portion, that thou canst not be miserable, while thou hast a God to live upon. Take him for thy shield and exceeding great reward. God alone is more than all the world. Content thy self with him. Let others carry the preferments and glory of the world, place thou thy happiness in his favour, and the light of his countenance, Psal. 5. 6, 7.

Dir. VI. Make a solemn choice of God for thy portion and blessedness, Deut. 26. 17. With all possible devotion and veneration avouch the Lord for thy God. Set the world with all its glory, and paint, and gallantry, with all its pleasures and promotions on the one hand, and set God with all his infinite excellencies and perfections on the other, and see that thou do deliberately make thy choice, Iosh. 24. 15. Take up thy rest in God, Ioh. 6. 68. Set thee down under his shadow, Cant. 2. 3. Let his promises and perfections turn the scale against all the world. Settle it upon thy heart, that the Lord is an all-sufficient portion, that thou canst not be miserable, while thou hast a God to live upon. Take him for thy shield and exceeding great reward. God alone is more than all the world. Content thy self with him. Let others carry the preferments and glory of the world, place thou thy happiness in his favour, and the light of his countenance,