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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.
Introduction › Chapter 6: Containing DIRECTIONS for Conversion.
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.
Again, he tells you; I am the Sovereign Lord. If you will have me for your God, you must give me the supremacy, Mat. 6. 24. I will not be an underling. You must not make me a second to sin, or any worldly interest. If you will be my people, I must have the rule over you. You must not live at your own list. Will you come under my yoke? Will you bow to my Government? Will you submit to my discipline? to my word, to my rod? Sinner, what sayest thou to this? Lord I had rather be at thy command, than live at mine own list. I had rather have thy will to be done, than mine. I approve of and consent to thy laws, and account it my privilege to lie under them. And though the flesh rebel, and often break over bounds, I am resolved to take no other Lord but thee. I willingly take the Oath of thy supremacy and acknowledge thee for my liege Sovereign, and resolve all my days to pay the tribute of worship, obedience, and love, and service to thee, and to live to thee as the end of my life. This is a right accepting of God.
Again, he tells you; I am the Soveraign Lord. If you will have me for your God, you must give me the supremacy, Mat. 6. 24. I will not be an underling. You must not make me a second to sin, or any worldly interest. If you will be my people, I must have the rule over you. You must not live at your own list. Will you come under my yoke? Will you bow to my Government? Will you submit to my discipline? to my word, to my rod? Sinner, what sayest thou to this? Lord I had rather be at thy command, than live at mine own list. I had rather have thy will to be done, than mine. I approve of and consent to thy laws, and account it my priviledge to lie under them. And though the flesh rebel, and often break over bounds, I am resolved to take no other Lord but thee. I willingly take the Oath of thy supremacy and acknowledge thee for my liege Soveraign, and resolve all my days to pay the tribute of worship, obedience, and love, and service to thee, and to live to thee as the end of my life. This is a right accepting of God.
To be short, he tells you; I am the true and faithful God. If you will have me for your God, you must be content to trust me,