The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Again, thou must give up thy whole interest to him. If there be any thing, that thou keepest back from Christ, it will be thine undoing. Luke 14. 33. Unless thou wilt forsake all (in preparation and resolution of thy heart) thou canst not be his Disciple. Thou must hate Father and Mother, yea and thine own life also in comparison of him, and as far as it stands in competition with him, Mat. 10. 37. Luke 14. 26, 27, &c. In a word, thou must give him thy self, and all that thou hast, without reservation, or else thou canst have no part in him.

Dir. IX. Make choice of the Laws of Christ as the rule of thy words, thoughts and actions, Psal. 119. 30. This is the true Converts choice. But here remember these three rules. 1. Thou must choose them all. There is no coming to Heaven by a partial obedience. Read Psal. 119. 6, 128, 160. Ezek, 18. 21. None may think it enough to take up with the cheap and easy part of Religion, and let alone the duties that are ⟨p. 161⟩costly, and self-denying, and grate upon the interest of the flesh. You must take all, or none. A sincere Convert, though he makes most conscience of the greatest sins and weightiest duties; yet he makes true conscience of little sins, and of all duties, Psal. 119. 6. 113. Mat. 23. 23. 2. For all times, for prosperity, and for adversity; whether it rain, or shine. A true Convert is resolved in his way: he will stand to his choice, and will not set his back to wind, and be of the religion of the times. I have stuck to thy testimonies, I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes alway, even to the end. Thy testimonies have I taken, as an heritage for ever,