The vvay to heaven discovered: and, the stumbling-blocks (cast therein by the world, flesh, and devill) removed. Or, The ready way to true happines

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Title: The vvay to heaven discovered: and, the stumbling-blocks (cast therein by the world, flesh, and devill) removed. Or, The ready way to true happines
Author: Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.
Publication: [London] :: Printed for William Ballard of Bristol, and are sold by J. Grismond in Ivie-lane, London,; 1653.
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Subject terms: Happiness -- Religious aspects; Christian life
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Answ. There is nothing on Gods part, for he hath taken all things out of the way, that hindred thee to be saved, Col. 2. 14.

Nay further, we are to doe nothing at all towards our own salvation, for Christ hath freely purchased us life and Salvation, 1 Cor. 6. 20. 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. Ephes. 1. 14.

Even thus doth the Lord doe for us, that we might acknowledge we are nothing, but what we are in him, and that we have nothing but what we have received from him, that so all the glory might be to him; First, he will have us to see our selves to be the greatest and vilest sinners, and againe to see all our owne righteousnesse and performances to be as fil∣thy and monstrous rags, that so we might de∣ny our own righteousnesse wholly, and look to be found in the righteousnesse of Christ only.