A26701:363
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.
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.
And because thou hast been pleased to give me thy Holy Laws,1 as the rule of my Life, and the way in which I should walk to thy Kingdom, I do here willingly put my Neck under thy Yoke, and set my shoulder to thy burden; and subscribing to all thy Laws, as holy, just, and good, I solemnly take them as the rule of my words, thoughts and actions; promising that though my flesh contradict and rebel, yet I will endeavour to order and govern my whole life according to thy direction; and will not allow my self in the neglect of any thing that I know to be my duty.
And because thou hast been pleased to give me thy Holy Laws,1 as the rule of my Life, and the way in which I should walk to thy Kingdom, I do here willingly put my Neck under thy Yoak, and set my shoulder to thy burden; and subscribing to all thy Laws, as holy, just, and good, I solemnly take them as the rule of my words, thoughts and actions; promising that though my flesh contradict and rebel, yet I will endeavour to order and govern my whole life according to thy direction; and will not allow my self in the neglect of any thing that I know to be my duty.
- 1The less principal are the Laws of Christ which must be thus observed.