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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.
A Discourse made by Mr. Joseph Alleine on a night of solemn Thanksgiving, which he held with his people in Taunton, some days before the five-mile-Act came in force, by virtue of which he was then to leave them.
A Discourse made by Mr. Joseph Alleine on a night of solemn Thanksgiving, which he held with his people in Taunton, some dayes before the five-mile-Act came in force, by vertue of which he was then to leave them.
Most dearly beloved Brethren, with no little Joy and Thankfulness have I thought of this time, when I should once more see your faces together: and be so truly glad, with so heart contenting a mercy, as to rejoice with the Joy of Gods people and to glory with his inheritance.
MOst dearly beloved Brethren, with no little Joy and Thankfulness have I thought of this time, when I should once more see your faces together: and be so truly glad, with so heart contenting a mercy, as to rejoyce with the Joy of Gods people and to glory with his inheritance.
It is a time, that to some, may seem unseasonable to set up Thanksgivings when our calamities are so near approaching. But surely, if I had never hopes to enjoy one day with you more, the last day should be a day of ⟨p. 100⟩praise. And if I were sure that we were now to take our farewell of Christians and Ministers, and of all our former liberties, I should exhort you that we might join once more in lifting up hearts and hands in bl•ssing God for all the mercies that we have met with together. Your Condition is never such but your mercies are infinitely greater, and more then your afflictions. Neither may the sense of misery at any time surprise you, so as to drown the Thankful acknowledgement of Gods mercies. God that hath been always good to you, hath never been better then since you have had affliction. Elijah was never so happily fed at a full Table as when it was a time of great Famine: when God sent him every bit of bread and flesh by the mouth of a Raven. Oh how sweetly do you think that every bit of this bread did relish with the man of God? when he saw that he received it immediately out of Gods own hand?