A26701:94
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.
Well, in this you see all are agreed, that be it more or less that is received in baptism, if (when men come to years) they are evidently unsanctified, they must be renewed again by a through and powerful change, or else they cannot escape the damnation of Hell: Friends and Brethren be not deceived, God is not mocked; Gal. 6. 7. Whether it be your baptism or what ever else that you pretend, I tell you from the living God, that if any of you be a prayerless person, Job. 15. 14. or unclean, or malicious, or covetous, or riotous, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, Prov. 13. 20. In a word, if you are not holy, strict, and self-denying Christians, Heb. 12. 14. Mat. 16. 24. you cannot be saved, except you be transformed by a further work upon you, and renewed again by repentance.
Well, in this you see all are agreed, that be it more or less that is received in baptism, if (when men come to years) they are evidently unsanctified, they must be renewed again by a through and powerful change, or else they cannot escape the damnation of Hell: Friends and Brethren be not deceived, God is not mocked; Gal. 6. 7. Whether it be your baptism or what ever else that you pretend, I tell you from the living God, that if any of you be a prayerless person, Iob. 15. 14. or unclean, or malicious, or covetous, or riotous, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, Prov. 13. 20. In a word, if you are not holy, strict, and self-denying Christians, Heb. 12. 14. Mat. 16. 24. you cannot be saved, except you be transformed by a further work upon you, and renewed again by repentance.