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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.
The Art of Dying well.
Luk. 12. 19, 20. Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years — But God said, Thou fool this night shall thy soul be required of thee.
Qu. Since no man hath one days certainty of his life, what may we do to be secured from being surprised by death?
Qu. SInce no man hath one dayes certainty of his life, what may we do to be secured from being surprised by death?
1. Sit loose from the world, that you may be able to pack up •nd be gone upon sudden warning. Here was the folly and misery of this rich man, that he had set his heart upon the world, his mind did run upon his Barns, and upon his Belly; his Goods, were his Gods, he wishes no other felicity, than to eat and be merry: If you would be sit for your great Journey to your long home, you must lay aside every weight, and in special, the encumbering and entangling, and ensnaring clog and burden of worldly affections; you must take heed to your selves, least at any time your hearts be over-charged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life; if you would not have that day come upon you unawares. It is said, there is a […] whose heart is in his