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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.
Dir. X. Let all this be completed in a solemn Covenant between God and thy soul. Psal. 119. 106. Neh. 10. 29. For thy better help therein, take these few directions.
Dir. X. Let all this be compleated in a solemn Covenant between God and thy soul. Psal. 119. 106. Neh. 10. 29. For thy better help therein, take these few directions.
First, set apart some time, more than once to be spent in secret before the Lord.
1. In seeking earnestly his special assistance, and gracious acceptance of thee. 2. In considering distinctly all the terms or conditions of the Covenant, expressed in the form hereafter proposed. 3. In searching thine heart, whether thou art sincerely willing to forsake all thy sins, and to resign up thy self, body and soul unto God, and his service, to serve him in holiness and righteousness all the days of thy life
1. In seeking earnestly his special assistance, and gracious acceptance of thee. 2. In considering distinctly all the terms or conditions of the Covenant, expressed in the form hereafter proposed. 3. In searching thine heart, whether thou art sincerely willing to forsake all thy sins, and to resign up thy self, body and soul unto God, and his service, to serve him in holiness and righteousness all the dayes of thy life