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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.
Now put all this together and see whether God hath not done much for you, you are the election of grace, the first born of God, the first fruits of the Creation, the remnant of escape, the Burgesses of heaven, the members of Christ, the living stones of the Temple. O whence should God have praise if not from you? who should lift up his name if not you? but,
Now put all this together and see whether God hath not done much for you, you are the election of grace, the first born of God, the first fruites of the Creation, the remnant of escape, the Burgesses of heaven, the members of Christ, the living stones of the Temple. O whence should God have praise if not from you? who should lift up his name if not you? but,
Secondly, Consider what God hath done for you as you are the inhabitants of Taunton in particular. Though the former should ever ring loudest and carry the principal part in your praise; yet the other may not be forgotten.
Secondly, Consider what God hath done for you as you are the inhabitants of Taunton in p•rticular. Though the former should ever ring loudest and carry the principal part in your praise; yet the other may not be forgot•n.
Now will I sing a song to my well-beloved, touching his vineyard, Isa. 5. 1. The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the Town of Tau•ton, and the inhabitants thereof his pleasant plant. And now I will tell you what God hath done for his vineyard. He hath plucked up the fence thereof, and yet it is not eaten up. Her hedges are broken down; yet they that pass by the way do not pluck her, nor the wild Boars of the forest eat her: nor the beasts of the field devour her. She is burnt with fire; and yet is not burnt up. O what hath God done for his vineyard here? O remember now, O people what the enemy consulted, and what the Lord answered; they said come let us curse Taunton and let us defy the people of God: But who