A Persuasive to a Holy Life

John Ray — EEBO-TCP A58177, keyed from the 1700 edition.

Ray’s last book, and the only one of his that is straightforwardly practical divinity: that a holy life is also the happy one, argued through every good men actually pursue — health, safety, riches, pleasure, honour, friends — and then through the happiness of the inward man and of the life to come.

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Contents (13)

1. The Preface to the Reader
2. Chapter 1. Some Mistakes, about the Object of Happiness
3. Chapter 2. What Holiness is
4. Chapter 3. What Happiness is
5. Chapter 4. Of the Division of Happiness
6. Chapter 5. Of Health
7. Chapter 6. Of Safety, Liberty and Quiet
8. Chapter 7. Of Riches
9. Chapter 8. Of Pleasure
10. Chapter 9. Of Honour and Reputation
11. Chapter 10. Of Friends
12. Chapter 11. Of the Happiness of the Inward Man
13. Chapter 12. Of the Happiness of the Future Estate, or Of Eternal Life