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…

First, If you consider the deplorable condition that he found us in, we were all gone out of the way: we had fallen among thieves; and between sin and Satan, we were robbed and wounded: and this Samaritan found us, and he cured us, and it cost him no less than his own blood. So desperate a disease is sin, that nothing will cure us, but the death of Christ. He found us shut up in sin, and were not able to get out; and then he rolled away the stone for us, and knocked off our fetters, and wrought deliverance for us. This was the misery of mans condition, that he was in a helpless condition, Rom. 5. 6. There was no possibility for us ever to recover our selves. Neither was there help in any other, beside Christ, Act. 4. 12. Heaven nor earth could not find out a way to deliver man, till God found out a way. And because heaven and earth could not find out a way, God and man must come together; and as he was God he must satisfy; and as he was man he must suffer; and so we must come out. He found us stinking in our grave as he did Lazarus. The stinking carrion doth not stink more than we did when Christ found us.

First, If you consider the deplorable condition that he found us in, we were all gone out of the way: we had fal'n among theeves; and between sin and Satan, we were robbed and wounded: and this Samaritan found us, and he cured us, and it cost him no less than his own blood. So desperate a disease is sin, that nothing will cure us, but the death of Christ. He found us shut up in sin, and were not able to get out; and then he roll'd away the stone for us, and knock'd off our fetters, and wrought deliverance for us. This was the misery of mans condition, that he was in a helpless condition, Rom. 5. 6. There was no possibility for us ever to recover our selves. Neither was there help in any other, beside Christ, Act. 4. 12. Heaven nor earth could not find out a way to deliver man, till God found out a way. And because heaven and earth could not find out a way, God and man must come together; and as he was God he must satisfie; and as he was man he must suffer; and so we must come out. He found us stinking in our grave as he did Lazarus. The stinking carrion doth not stink more than we did when Christ found us.