A26701:441
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.
Hear O ye drunkards, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine, 1 Sam. 1. 14. Though you have rolled in the vomit of your sin, take the vomit of repentance, and heartily disgorge your beloved lusts, and the Lord will receive you. 2. Cor. 6. 17. Give up your selves unto Christ, to live soberly, righteously, and godly; embrace his righteousness; accept his government; and though you have been swine he will wash you, Rev. 36.
Hear O ye loose companions, whose delight is in vain and wicked society, to sport away your time in carnal mirth and jollity with them, come in at wisdoms call, and choose her, and her ways, and forsake the foolish, and you shall live, Prov. 9. 5, 6.
Hear O ye loose companions, whose delight is in vain and wicked societie, to sport away your time in carnal mirth and jollity with them, come in at wisdoms call, and choose her, and her ways, and forsake the foolish, and you shall live, Prov. 9. 5, 6.
Hear O ye scorners, hear the word of the Lord. Though you have made a sport of godliness, and the professors thereof; though you have made a scorn of Christ, and of his ways; yet, even to you doth he call, to gather you under the wings of his mercy, Prov. 1. 22, 33. In a word, though you should be sound among. the worst of that black roll,