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Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…
Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ...Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ...
London: printed for Peter Parker, 1674
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.
Thirdly, Resolution, A settled, fixed purpose of heart to do what God commands. When God tells us this is my command, thus and thus you must do; our hearts should answer the will of God we will obey: thus and thus we will do. Thus did David, The Lord said seek my face; and my heart answered, thy face Lord will I seek. Beloved, we hear our duties, and read our duties many a time; and we are apt to acknowledge that this should be done, and to pray too, that it might be done; but for want of adding of resolution, many a time our convictions and prayers come to nothing. Concerning this duty let us not dispute but determine: let us not stand reasoning shall I, shall I, but resolve upon it.
Thirdly, Resolution, A setled, fixed purpose of heart to do what God commands. When God tells us this is my command, thus and thus you must do; our hearts should answer the will of God we will obey: thus and thus we will do. Thus did David, The Lord said seek my face; and my heart answered, thy face Lordwill I seek. Beloved, we hear our duties, and read our duties many a time; and we are apt to acknowledge that this should be done, and to pray too, that it might be done; but for want of adding of resolution, many a time our convictions and prayers come to nothing. Concerning this duty let us not dispute but determine: let us not stand reasoning shall I, shall I, but resolve upon it.
Fourthly, Love to the duty, Christians should not only receive the truths of God, but ⟨p. 34⟩receive them in love. The commands of God, like meat that pleaseth the palate, must go down sweetly, duties must not be so much our task as our choice: that which we would rather do than neglect, were we left to our liberty. Beloved, let us not only take up this course as necessary only, but let us love it as an excellent course. Let us not go to this work as a sick man goes to take down a loathsome potion, but as a sound healthy man goes to his ordinary meal.
Fourthly, Love to the duty, Christians should not only receive the truths of God, but ⟨p. 34⟩