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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.
Secondly, Consider the time when, and the manner how you consented to set to the performance of this duty. It was in a time of love; at a feast of love; and after a Song of love. Consider what a rich mercy God hath bestowed upon you, in giving you liberty to draw nigh to him in such an ordinance as you lately sate under. It was but a little while ago, beloved, that you thought that you should drink no more of the fruit of the vine, till you drank it in your fathers kingdom. And behold contrary to your expectations, the King hath sent to you, saying, come and sup with me: come and sit at my table.
Secondly, Consider the time when, and the manner how you consented to set to the performance of this duty. It was in a time of love; at a feast of love; and after a Song of love. Consider what a rich mercy God hath bestowed upon you, in giving you liberty to draw nigh to him in such an ordinance as you lately sate under. It was but a little while ago, beloved, that you thought that you should drink no more of the fruit of the vine, till you drank it in your fathers kingdome. And behold contrary to your expectations, the King hath sent to you, saying, come and sup with me: come and sit at my table.
Hath God dealt so with any people? He hath feasted you in a time of famine: and spread a table for you in a howling wilderness. Doth not this extraordinary providence think you, call upon you for some extraordinary duty? And do not you think in your consciences that it is this duty? Why else hath God propounded it to you, and urged it upon you, in such a time as this is? If you neglect it, it may cause God to take away the Cor• and wine from you; and to break the staff of […].
Hath God dealt so with any people? He hath feasted you in a time of famine: and spread a table for you in a howling wild•rness. Doth not this extraordinary providence think you, call upon you for some extraordinary duty? And do not you think in your consciences that it is this duty? Why else hath God propounded it to you, and urged it upon you, in such a time as this is? If you neglect it, it may cause God to take away the Cor and wine from you; and to break the stasf of .