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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.
10. Keep no long Reckonings, but let Conscience bring you in the accounts every day before you sleep. Keep a Day book in your own hearts, speedily make up any controversies that may fall out between God and your Souls, 'twill be sad to find old things to reckon for, when you come to dye: you cannot imagine the torment that one sin unrepented of, or unhumbled for, may cost you; study to keep all clear, and even daily within: This made dying Oecolampadias clap his hand upon his Breast, saying, hic sat est Lucis, 'tis all light within; daily self-examination will make you to live holily, and dye comfortably; but if you let things run long, you will be all at a loss.
10. Keep no long Reckonings, but let Conscience bring you in the accounts every day before you sleep. Keep a Day book in your own hearts, speedily make up any controversies that may fall out between God and your Souls, 'twil be sad to find old things to reckon for, when you come to dye: you cannot imagine the torment that one sin unrepented of, or unhumbled for, may cost you; study to keep all clear, and even daily within: This made dying Oecolampadias clap his hand upon his Breast, saying, hic sat est Lucis, 'tis all light within; daily selfexamination will make you to live holily, and dye comfortably; but if you let things run long, you will be all at a loss.
11. Set your houses in order that you may not have your estates in the world to settle, when God requires your Souls: Make your wills in your health and vigour, and therein be sure so to settle your estates, as that God and good uses be not shut out, nor forgotten. Wretched men that have so many hundreds to settle upon their Children, can scarce find in their hearts to settle one in the hundred upon Gods special Service.