The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

And is it true indeed? is life and death at thy choice? yea, 'tis as true as truth is. Deut. 30. 19. why then, what hinders but that thou shouldest be happy? Nothing doth or can hinder, but thine own wilful neglect, or refusal. It was the passage of the Eunuch to Philip: See here is water, what doth hinder me to be baptized? So I may say to thee: see, here is Christ, here is mercy, pardon, life, what hinders but that thou shouldst be pardoned, and saved? One of the Martyrs as he was praying at the stake, had his pardon set by in a box (which indeed he refused, deservedly, because upon unworthy terms.) But here the terms are most honourable and easy: O sinner, wilt thou burn with thy pardon by? Why do but forthwith give up thy consent to Christ, renounce thy sins, deny thy self, take up the Yoke, and the Cross, and thou carriest the day; Christ is thine, pardon, peace, life, blessedness, all are thine: and is not this an offer worth the embracing; Why shouldst thou hesitate, or doubtfully dispute about the case? Is it not past controversy, whether God be better than sin, and glory better than vanity? Why shouldst thou forsake thine own mercy, ⟨p. 206⟩and sin against thine own life? When wilt thou sh•ke off thy sloth, and lay by thine excuses? Boast not thy self of to morrow: thou knowest not where this night may lodge thee. Prov. 27. 1.

And is it true indeed? is life and death at thy choice? yea, 'tis as true as truth is. Deut. 30. 19. why then, what hinders but that thou shouldest be happy? Nothing doth or can hinder, but thine own wilful neglect, or refusal. It was the passage of the Eunuch to Philip: See here is water, what doth hinder me to be baptized? So I may say to thee: see, here is Christ, here is mercy, pardon, life, what hinders but that thou shouldst be pardoned, and saved? One of the Martyrs as he was praying at the stake, had his pardon set by in a box (which indeed he refused, deservedly, because upon unworthy terms.) But here the terms are most honourable and easie: O sinner, wilt thou burn with thy pardon by? Why do but forthwith give up thy consent to Christ, renounce thy sins, deny thy self, take up the Yoak, and the Cross, and thou carriest the day; Christ is thine, pardon, peace, life, blessedness, all are thine: and is not this an offer worth the embracing; Why shouldst thou hesitate, or doubtfully dispute about the case? Is it not past controversie, whether God be better than sin, and glory better than vanity? Why shouldst thou forsake thine own mercy,