The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Name: The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /
Author: Joseph Alleine

The way to true happiness in a serious treatise / by Joseph Alleine.

Joseph Alleine 1634–1668London : Printed and are to be sold by Nevil Simmons, 1678

[30], 214, [1] p. · 70k words · Wing A982 · ESTC R27085

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Introduction: Mr. JOSEPH ALLEINE'S CALL TO THE UNCONVERTED.

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.

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Beloved, if you have any pity for your perishing souls, close with the present offers of mercy. If you would not continue and increase the pains of your travelling Ministers, do not stick in the birth. If the God that made you have any authority with you, obey his command and come in. If you are not the despisers of grace, and would not shut up the doors of mercy against your selves, repent and be converted. Let not Heaven stand open for you in vain. Let not the Lord Jesus open his wares, and bid you buy without money and without price, in vain. Let not his Ministers and his Spirit, strive with you in vain, and leave you now at last unpersuaded; lest the sentence go forth against you, The Bellows are burnt, the Lead is consumed of the fire, the Founder melteth in vain. Reprobate Silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them, Jer. 6. 29, 30.

Beloved, if you have any pity for your perishing souls, close with the present offers of mercy. If you would not continue and increase the pains of your travelling Ministers, do not stick in the birth. If the God that made you have any authority with you, obey his command and come in. If you are not the despisers of grace, and would not shut up the doors of mercy against your selves, repent and be converted. Let not Heaven stand open for you in vain. Let not the Lord Jesus open his wares, and bid you buy without money and without price, in vain. Let not his Ministers and his Spirit, strive with you in vain, and leave you now at last unperswaded; lest the sentence go forth against you, The Bellows are burnt, the Lead is consumed of the fire, the Founder melteth in vain. Reprobate Silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them, Ier. 6. 29, 30.

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Father of Spirits, take the heart in hand that is too hard for my weakness. Do not thou have ended, though I have done. Half a word from thine effectual power, will do the work. O thou that hast the key of David, that openest when no man shutteth, open thou his heart as thou didst Lydia's and let the King of glory enter in; and make this soul thy happy captive. Let not the Tempter harden him in delays. Let him not stir from this place, nor take his eyes from these lines till he be resolved to forg his sins, and to accept of life upon thy self-denying terms. In thy name O Lord God did I go forth to these Labours, in thy name do I shut them

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The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

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