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A26701 The way to true happiness in a serious treatise / by Joseph Alleine. Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.; R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1678 (1678) Wing A982; ESTC R27085 136,618 250

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which the Devil and sin will give thee if thou wilt sell thy soul and Heaven and that which God hath promised and sworn to give thee if thou wilt heartily give up thy self to him I know that thou maist possibly fall into Company at least among some sots and drunkards that will tell thee all this is but troublesome preciseness and making more ado than needs But I know withal what that Man deserveth who will believe a Fool before his Maker for he can be no better than a Miserable Fool that will contradict and revile the Word of God even the Word of Grace that would save Mens Souls And alas it is possible thou maist hear some of the Tribe of Levi or rather of Cain deriding this Serious Godliness as meer Hypocrisie and Fanaticism and Self-conceitedness As if you must be no better than the Devils slaves lest you be Proud in thinking that you are better than they That is you must go with them to Hell lest in Heaven you be Proud Hypocrites for thinking your selves happier than they It may be they will tell you that this talk of Conversion is fitter for Pagans and Infidels to hear than Christians and Protestants Because such mens big Looks or Coats may make the poyson the easilier taken down I will intreat thee but as before God to answer these following questions or to get them answered and then judge whether it be they or we that would deceive thee and whether as men use to talk against Learning that have none themselves so such men prate not against Conversion and the Spirit of God because they have no such thing themselves Quest. 1. I pray ask these men whether it be a Puritan or Fanatick Opinion that men must dye and what all the Pomp and Wealth and Pleasure of the World will signifie to a departing Soul Ask them whether they will live on Earth for ever and their merry hours and Lordly looks will have no end And whether it be but the conceit of Hypocrites and Schismaticks that their Carcases must be rotting in a dark-some Grave Quest. 2. Ask them whether man have not an Immortal Soul and a longer life to live when this is ended Luke 12. 41. Quest. 3. Ask them whether reason require not every man to think more seriously of the place or state where he must be for ever than of that where he must be for a little while and from whence he is posting day and night And whether it be not wiser to lay up our treasure where we must stay than where we must not stay but daily look to be called away and never more to be seen on earth Mat. 6. 19 20. 2 Cor. 4. 16 17 18. and 5. 1 2 3 6 7 8. Quest. 4. Ask them whether God should not be loved with all our heart and soul and might Mat. 22. 27. And whether it be not the mark of an ungodly miscreant to be a lover of pleasure more than God 2 Tim. 3. 4. and a lover of this World above him 1 Joh. 2. 15 16. And whether we must not seek first Gods Kingdom and his Righteousness Mat. 6. 33. and labour most for the meat that never perisheth Ioh. 6. 27. and strive to enter in at the strait gate Luke 13. 24. and give all diligence to make our calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 10. Quest. 5. Ask them whether without Holiness any shall see God Heb. 12. 14 Mat. 5. 8. Tit. 2. 14. And whether the carnal mind is not enmity to God and to be carnally minded is not death and to be spiritually minded life and peace And whether if you live after the flesh you shall not die and be condemned and they shall live and be saved that walk after the spirit and whether any man be Christs that hath not his spirit Rom. 8. 1 5 6 7 8 9 13. Quest. 6. Ask them whether any man have a Treasure in Heaven whose heart is not there Mat. 6. 21. And whether this be not the difference between the wicked and the Godly that the first do make their bellies their Gods and mind earthly things and are Enemies to the Cross of Christ though perhaps not his name● and the latter have their conversation in Heaven and being risen with Christ do seek and set their affections on things above and not on the things that are on earth to which they are as dead and their life is hid or out of sight with Christ in God till Christ appear and then they shall appear eve● openly to all the world with him in Glory Phil. 3. 18 19 20. Col. 4. 1 2 3● 4. 5. Quest. 7. Ask them whether it be cre●●ble or suitable to Gods word or workings● that he that will not give th●m the fruits of the earth without their labour nor feed and cloath them without themselves will yet bring them to Heaven without any care desire or labour of their own When he hath bid him● Care not for th● one and called for their greatest diligence for the other Mat. 6. 25. 33. Joh. 6● 27. Yea ask them whether these be not the two first articles of all Faith and Religion 1. That God is 2. That he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him Heb. 11. 6. Quest. 8. Ask them yea ask your eyes your ears your daily experience in the World whether all or most that call themselves Christians do in good sadness thus live to God in the Spirit and mortifie the flesh with its affections and iusts and seek first Gods Kingdom and Righteousness and love him above all and lay up treasure and heart in Heaven or rather whether most be not lovers of the World and lovers of pleasure more than God and live not after the flesh and mind not most the things of the flesh I mention not now the drunkards the flesh pleasing Gentlemen that live in Pride Fulness and Idleness and Sport and Play away their precious time nor the filthy Fornicator nor the merciless Oppressors● nor the malignant Haters of a Godly life nor the perjured and perfidious betrayers of mens souls and of the Gospel or their Countries Good nor such other men of seared Conscience whose misery none questioneth but such as are as blind and miserable It 's not these only I am speaking of but the common worldly fleshly and ungodly ones Quest. 9. Ask them whether the name of a Christian will save any of these ungodly persons And whether God will like men the better for lying and calling themselves Christians when they are none indeed and whether they dare preach to the people that a Christian Drunkard or a Christian Fornicator or Oppressor or a Christian worldling needeth no Conversion Quest. 10. Ask them whether they say not themselves that Hypocrisie is a great aggravation of all other sin and whether God hath not made the Hypocrites and Unbelievers to be the standards in Hell Luke 25. 51. And whether seeking to abuse God by a Mock