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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.
Behold, O ye sons of men, the Lord Jes•s hath thrown open the prisons, and now he cometh to you (as the Magistrates once to them Acts 16. 39.) and b••ee•heth you to come out. If it were from a Palace, or a Paradise that ⟨p. 208⟩Christ did call you, it were no wonder if you were unwilling (and yet how easily was Adam tolled from hence?) but it is from your prison, sirs, from your chains, from the dungeon, from the darkness that he calleth you? Isaiah. 42. 6, 7. and, yet will you not come? He calleth you unto liberty. Gal. 5. 13. and yet will you not hearken? His yoke is easy, his Laws are Liberty, his service freedom: Mat. 11. 30. James 1. 25. 1 Cor. 7. 22. and (Whatever prejudices you have against his ways) if a God may be believed, you shall find them all pleasure and peace, and shall taste sweetness and joy unutterable, and take infinite delight and felicity in them. Prov. 3. 17. Psal. 110. 165. 1 Pet. 1. 1. Psal. 119. 103. 111.
Behold, O ye sons of men, the Lord Jes•s hath thrown open the prisons, and now he cometh to you (as the Magistrates once to them Acts 16. 39.) and b••ee•heth you to come out. If it were from a Palace, or a Paradise that