A26694:284
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.
(4.) Your persons from the prison. How often hath God preserved you? he hath been like the cloud upon Israel: and upon all the glory there hath been a defence. Once indeed some of you have tasted of a prison: but what a mercy was it, that it was but once? I might tell you what a mercy 'tis to you, that you have not been troubled with the prelates Courts. but,
Secondly, God hath been a shepherd to you. Therefore you have not wanted. Who is it that drives you by the still waters, though you are as a lamb in a large place, 'tis because God is your shepherd Whence is it that you lye down in green pastures? 'tis because God is your shepherd. How hath God provided for you formerly and of late?
Secondly, God hath been a shepheard to you. Therefore you have not wanted. VVho is it that drives you by the still waters, though you are as a lamb in a large place, 'tis because God is your shepheard VVhence is it that you lye down in green pastures? 'tis because God is your shepheard. How hath God provided for you formerly and of late?
Thirdly, God hath been a keeper to you. When you were sent to prison God did keep you. O do not forget the mercies of a prison. I believe, that of all the passages of our lives, many of us have no such experience of Gods mercy as in a prison. O the provision that God did make for us there! O the constant meals, the sweet meals that God did make for us there.
Thirdly, God hath been a keeper to you. VVhen you were sent to prison God did keep you. O do not forget the mercies of a prison. I beleive, that of all the passages of our lives, many of us have no such experience of Gods mercy as in a prison. O the provision that God did make for us there! O the constant meals, the sweet meals that God did make for us there.