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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 7: Containing the Motives to Conversion.
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Oh! I am even lost and swallowed up in ⟨p. 190⟩the abundance of those arguments that I might suggest. If there be any point of wisdom in all the world, it is to repent and come in: if there be any thing righteous, any thing reasonable, this is it. If there be any thing in the world that may be called madness, and folly, any thing that may be counted sottish, absurd, brutish, unreasonable, it is this, to go on in thine unconverted estate. Let me beg thee, as thou wouldst not wilfully destroy thy self, to sit down and weigh, besides what hath been said, these following Motives, and let conscience speak, if it be not reason, that thou shouldst repent and turn.
Oh! I am even lost and swallowed up in ⟨p. 190⟩the ab••dance of those arguments that I might suggest. If there be any point of wisdom in all the world, it is to repent and come in: if there be any thing righteous, any thing reasonable, this is it. If there be any thing in the world that may be called madness, and folly, any thing that may be counted sottish, absurd, brutish, unreasonable, it is this, to go on in thine unconverted estate. Let me beg thee, as thou wouldst not wilfully destroy thy self, to sit down and weigh, besides what hath been said, these following Motives, and let conscience speak, if it be not reason, that thou shouldst repent and turn.
1. The God that made thee doth most graciously invite thee.
First, his most sweet and merciful nature doth invite thee; Oh the kindness of God, his working bowels, his tender mercies! they are infinitely above our thoughts, higher than Heaven, what can we do? deeper than hell, what can we know?