A26694:188
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.
Use. Is it so that the Lord Jesus Christ doth ⟨p. 62⟩take such notice of our works for the quality of them? then this may be useful by way of Reprehension and Exhortation.
Use. Is it so that the Lord Jesus Christ doth ⟨p. 62⟩take such notice of our works for the quality of them? then this may be usefull by way of Reprehension and Exhortation.
First. For Reprehension, this reproves us that we rest so much in the work done, and do so little enquire into the quality of our works as to the sincerity and soundness of them. O my Brethren! how often do we pray, and never examine how we have prayed? and hear, and never enquire, how we have carried it, while we have been hearing? O how many a mans bosom am I now in? Brethren, this is a great evil among men. Yea, I fear among Gods own people, that there is not that care to look into their duties, how they are performed. Brethren, if the Lord Jesus Christ did as you, look no farther than the outside of your duties, and the work done, then you may rest in that; O but Jesus Christ he looks into the inside of them, and he labours to see what there is of soundness and sincerity in them: And seeing the Lord Jesus Christ looks so narrowly into them, should not you? This is the cause of many sins and mischiefs among Professors.
First. For Reprehension, this reproves us that we rest so much in the work done, and do so little enquire into the quality of our works as to the sincerity and soundness of them. O my Brethren! how often do we pray, and never examine how we have prayed? and hear, and never enquire, how we have carried it, while we have been hearing? O how many a mans bosome am I now in? Brethren, this is a great evil among men. Yea, I fear among Gods own people, that there is not that care to look into their duties, how they are performed. Brethren, if the Lord Jesus Christ did as you, look no farther than the outside of your duties, and the work done, then you may rest in that; O but Jesus Christ he looks into the inside of them, and he labours to see what there is of soundness and sincerity in them: And seeing the Lord Jesus Christ looks so narrowly into them, should not you? This is the cause of many sins and mischiefs among Prosessors.