A26701:362
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.
O blessed Jesus, I come to thee hungry and hardly bestead, poor and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked; a most loathsome polluted wretch, a guilty condemned Malefactor unworthy for ever to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord, much more to be solemnly married to the King of Glory: but […] such is thine unparalleled love, I do here with all my power accept thee, and do take thee for my Head and Husband, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, for all times and conditions, to love, and honour, and obey thee before all others, and this to the death. I embrace thee in all thine Offices: I renounce mine own worthiness, and do here avow thee to be the Lord my Righteousness: I renounce mine own wisdom, and do here take thee for mine only Guide: I renounce mine own Will; and take thy Will for my Law.
O blessed Jesus, I come to thee hungry and hardly bestead, poor and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked; a most loathsom polluted wretch, a guilty condemned Malefactor unworthy for ever to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord, much more to be solemnly married to the King of Glory: but 〈…〉 such is thine unparallell'd love, I do here with all my power accept thee, and do take thee for my Head and Husband, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, for all times and conditions, to love, and honour, and obey thee before all others, and this to the death. I embrace thee in all thine Offices: I renounce mine own worthiness, and do here avow thee to be the Lord my Righteousness: I renounce mine own wisdom, and do here take thee for mine only Guide: I renounce mine own Will; and take thy Will for my Law.
And since thou hast told me that I must suffer if I will reign, I do here Covenant with thee to take my Lot, as it falls, with thee, and by thy Grace assisting to run all hazards with thee, ⟨p. 168⟩verily supposing that neither life nor death shall part between thee and me.