The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Let the blind Samaritans worship they know not what, Joh. 4. 22. Let the Heathen Athenians superscribe their Altar to the unknown God, Acts 17. 23. Let the guileful Papists commend the mother of destruction, Hos. 4. 6. for the mother of devotion: they that know mans constitution, and the nature of the reasonable souls operation, cannot but know, that the understanding having the Empire in the Soul, he that will go rationally to work, must labour to let in the light here. Ignorantis non est consensus. And therefore that you may not mistake me, I shall show you what I mean by the conversion I persuade you to endeavour after.

LEt the blind Samaritans worship they know not what, Ioh. 4. 22. Let the Heathen Athenians superscribe their Altar to the unknown God, Acts 17. 23. Let the guileful Papists commend the mother of destruction, Hos. 4. 6. for the mother of devotion: they that know mans constitution, and the nature of the reasonable souls operation, cannot but know, that the understanding having the Empire in the Soul, he that will go rationally to work, must labour to let in the light here. Ignorantis non est consensus. And therefore that you may not mistake me, I shall shew you what I mean by the conversion I perswade you to endeavour after.

It is storied, that when Jupiter let down the golden Chaplets from Heaven, all of them but one were stolen: Whereupon (lest they should lose a relic of so great esteem) they made five others so like it, that if any were so wickedly minded, as to steal that also, they should not be able to discern which was it. And truly my beloved the Devil hath made many counterfeits of this Conversion, and cheats one with this, and another with that; and such a craft and artifice he hath, in this mystery of deceits, that (if it were possible) he would deceive the very Elect. Now that I may cure the damnable mistakes of some, who think they