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…

13. Above all speed to the City of refuge.

First, Get into it, close soundly with Jesus Christ. O dreadful work that Death makes with those, that are not found in him; it tears the body and soul asunder, it drags the soul to Hell, and locks up the dust in Prison, till the terrible Judgment, it puts an eternal end to all comforts, and enters the sinner upon unchangeable misery, and delivers over the Prisoners to the tormentors; but if you give up your selves entirely, before-hand, and accept Christ by believing, on his own terms; this will secure you in him, then the danger of this is over. Look to this, whatsoever you neglect, once in Christ, and you ⟨image 10⟩have the victory; you may send a challenge to Death, and with Paul triumph before the Battle, and make the Bonfires, and ring out the Bells, as sure of the conquest, and go with shouts of joy, and palms of victory, and garments of salvation to encounter with, or rather to make spoil upon your already conquered enemy. 2. Keep you in it, when you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, you must walk in him; wander from him, and you betray your safety; O look to it that death find you not venturing out of your refuge, by loose walking. God bespeaks you here as Solomon did Shimei, 1 Kings 2. 36, 37. And the King sent for Shimei, and said unto him, build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither, for on the day thou goest out thou shalt know for certain thou shalt surely dye.

First, Get into it, close soundly with Jesus Christ. O dreadful work that Death makes with those, that are not found in him; it tears the body and soul asunder, it drags the soul to Hell, and locks up the dust in Prison, till the terrible Judgment, it puts an eternal end to all comforts, and enters the sinner upon unchangeable misery, and delivers over the Prisoners to the tormentors; but if you give up your selves entirely, before-hand, and accept Christ by believing, on his own terms; this will secure you in him, then the danger of this is over. Look to this, whatsoever you neglect, once in Christ, and you