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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.
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.
Quest. 9. Ask them whether the name of a Christian will save any of these ungodly persons? And whether God will like men the better for lying and calling themselves Christians when they are none indeed? and whether they dare preach to the people that a Christian Drunkard, or a Christian Fornicator, or Oppressor, or a Christian worldling, needeth no Conversion?
Quest. 10. Ask them whether they say not themselves that Hypocrisy is a great aggravation of all other sin? and whether God hath not made the Hypocrites and Unbelievers to be the standards in Hell? Luke 25. 51. And whether seeking to abuse God by a Mock Religion, do make such false Christians better than the poor Heathens and Infidels, or much worse? and whether he be not an Hypocrite that professeth to be a Christian, and a servant of God, when he is none, nor will be? And whether he that knoweth his Masters will and doth it not, shall not have the sorest stripes, or punishment. Luke 12. 47.
Quest. 10. Ask them whether they say not themselves that Hypocrisie is a great aggravation of all other sin? and whether God hath not made the Hypocrites and Unbelievers to be the standards in Hell? Luke 25. 51. And whether seeking to abuse God by a Mock Religion, do make such false Christians better than the poor Heathens and Infidels, or much worse? and whether he be not an Hypocrite that professeth to be a Christian, and a servant of God, when he is none, nor will be? And whether he that knoweth his Masters will and doth it not, shall not have the sorest stripes, or punishment. Luke 12. 47.
Quest. 11, Ask them whether in their baptism (which is their Christening, as a Covenant,) they did not renounce the flesh, the World, and the Devil, and vow and deliver up themselves to God, their Father, their Saviour and their Sanctifier? And whether all or most men perform this vow? And whether a perjured Covenant-breaker against God, is fitter for Salvation, than one that never was baptized.