A26701:434
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.
Beloved, I am loath to leave you. I cannot tell how to give you over. I am now ready to shut up, but fain I would drive this bargain between Christ and you, before I end. What, shall I leave you as I found you at last? Have you read hitherto, and are not yet resolved upon a present abandoning all your sins, and closing with Jesus Christ? Alas, what shall I say? what shall I do? Will you turn off all my importunity? Have I run in vain? Have I used so many arguments, and spent so much time to persuade you, and yet must sit down at last in disappointment? But it is a small matter that you turn off me: you put a slight upon the God that made you, you reject the bowels and beseechings of a Saviour, and will be found resisters of the Holy Ghost. Acts 7. 51. if you will not now be prevailed with, to repent and be converted.
Beloved, I am loath to leave you. I cannot tell how to give you over. I am now ready to shut up, but fain I would drive this bargain between Christ and you, before I end. What, shall I leave you as I found you at last? Have you read hitherto, and are not yet resolved upon a present abandoning all your sins, and closing with Jesus Christ? Alas, what shall I say? what shall I do? Will you turn off all my importunity? Have I run in vain? Have I used so many arguments, and spent so much time to perswade you, and yet must sit down at last in disappointment? But it is a small matter that you turn off me: you put a slight upon the God that made you, you reject the bowels and beseechings of a Saviour, and will be found resisters of the Holy Ghost. Acts 7. 51. if you will not now be prevailed with, to repent and be converted.
Well, though I have called long and ye have refused, I shall yet this once more lift up my voice like a Trumpet, and cry from the highest places of the City, before I conclude with a miserable Conclamatum est. Once more I shall call after regardless sinners, that, if it be possible, I may awaken them. O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord,