The Way to True Happiness

Ralph Venning

ISBN 10: 184871288X / ISBN 13: 9781848712881

Published by The Banner of Truth Trust, 2013

About this Item

Ralph Venning (1621-74) here proposes that true happiness is only to be found in understanding and doing the will of God. Venning was admired not only for his preaching but also for the consistency of his life. This, together with his powerful calls to a pleasure obsessed world to seek happiness only where it may be found, are perhaps the reasons why his writings continue to speak so powerfully to us today.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Way to True Happiness
• Publisher: The Banner of Truth Trust
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184871288X
• ISBN 13: 9781848712881
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Ralph Venning (1621-74) here proposes that true happiness is only to be found in understanding and doing the will of God. Venning was admired not only for his preaching but also for the consistency of his life. This, together with his powerful calls to a pleasure obsessed world to seek happiness only where it may be found, are perhaps the reasons why his writings continue to speak so powerfully to us today.

About the Author

Ralph Venning was born in Devon around the year 1621 to Francis and Joanne Venning, and spent his childhood and early adult life in the vicinity of Tavistock, where his father was a yeoman farmer. There Venning encountered the Puritan preacher, George Hughes, under whose diligent pastoral ministry he was converted, along with two other young men who also went on to become gospel ministers.


Apart from a short period in Devon, Venning ministered primarily in London, in fellowship with both Independent and Presbyterian preachers such as Joseph Caryl, John Owen, Richard Baxter and George Griffith.