A26694:126
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, What do you know but God put it into the heart of his servant, to press this duty ⟨p. 41⟩at that time, to try whether you were real in that love and loyalty which you did then profess to him? I suppose you all understand the transactions that passed there between God and you: that God did put his seal to the Covenant, that he would make good all the mercy promised: and that you did put your seal, thereby binding your selves to the performance of all the duties required.
Thirdly, What do you know but God put it into the heart of his servant, to press this duty ⟨p. 41⟩at that time, to try whether you were real in that love and loyalty which you did then prosess to him? I suppose you all understand the transactions that passed there between God and you: that God did put his seal to the Covenant, that he would make good all the mercy promised: and that you did put your seal, thereby binding your selves to the performance of all the duties required.
Fourthly, Consider when another such opportunity is offered to you how will you be able to look God in the face? Methinks that man should not dare to come to the Sacrament, and again put his seal to the Covenant, that hath knowingly and willingly broken his last engagement.
Fifthly, Doth not your own looseness, and the enemies profaneness, and the present dispensations that you are under, call upon you for more than ordinary strictness in your lives and conversations? The Lord have mercy upon us, what prejudice have we brought to the Gospel by our carnal, careless conversations! What pitch of profaneness are the enemies of God risen to! They are not afraid to bid him defiance at his face! In what a doleful case are many of our brethren abroad in the world, and how sad is it like to be with us? The glory of God is gone from the public to your houses, and are you not afraid? I am sure there is reason enough to think, that it will take its flight from thence too. And doth not all this call upon us aloud in the language of the prophet,