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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,) Because this is the chief point of our love to our Brethren. You know that Christ tells us that all the Law and the • phets hang upon this, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, &c. And thy Neighbour as thy self. If the Law doth bind thee to preserve the Chastity and estate of thy Neighbour, how much more doth God require of thee that thou preserve the Soul of thy Neighbour? This is the principal point of love. Jam. 5. 20. He that converteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a Soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins, If God requires that thou help thy Neighbours Ox and his Ass, how much more must thou help thy Neighbours Soul from hell?
(Secondly,) Because this is the chief point of our love to our Brethren. You know that Christ tels us that all the Law and the • phets hang upon this, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, &c. And thy Neighbor as thy self. If the Law doth bind thee to preserve the Chastity and estate of thy Neighbor, how much more doth God require of thee that thou preserve the Soul of thy Neighbour? This is the principal point of love. Jam. 5. 20. He that converteth a sinner from the error of his wayes shall save a Soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins, If God requires that thou help thy Neighbours Ox and his Ass, how much more must thou help thy Neighbors Soul from hell?
(Thirdly,) Because this is the principal means of bringing glory to Christ. Every soul that is brought in to Christ is a Jewel put into the Crown of Christ. And wouldest thou not be ambitious of such a service as this? Every soul thou bringest into Christ is an eternal Monument, set up by thee to the name of Jesus Christ. Wouldest thou have much service done for Jesus Christ? O then labour to bring ⟨p. 50⟩in Souls to him, that may do his work here in the world. Wouldest thou have much praise to the name of Christ? O then labour to bring in Souls to Jesus Christ. Every Soul brought in to Jesus Christ is a Trumpet of his praise. The glory of a King is in the multitude of his subjects. And so 'tis of Christ. This is the great way wherein we are capable to further the glory of Christ in the world, to bring in many Souls to Jesus Christ.