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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.
A Sermon preached in order to the Sacrament, on a Sacramental day.
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.
First, From the roaring Lion. So is our adversary, the Devil called, 1 Pet. 5. 8. This is he that Christ hath delivered us from. We were all in the Paw of this lion, and Christ came and delivered us from him. This is the D• vid that slew the lion, and the bear, and saved us, when we were like to be destroyed. When Satan did think to triumph over Christ, then did Christ triumph over him. Col. 2. 15. All the powers of hell did combine together, and laboured to give Christ the overthrow; they had brought him to the cross, and there triumph over him, and thought that then they had done all; and yet then did he overthrow them. Oh! what a mercy is this, to be delivered (not only from the bondage of Egypt, but) from the spiritual Egypt! Col. 1. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness &c. My Brethren, we were fast shut up in prison, in the prison of which Satan was the Jailer: and there was no possibility of getting loose from him. We were laid up as slaves under him, and were led captive by him at his will. Now what praise do we owe to him, that hath delivered us from such a Tyrant as this! this is our deliverance, (Act. 26. 18.) to be turned from the power of Satan unto God. This hath Christ done for us: he hath delivered us from the power of Satan. We were once in his family, and did his work, Eph. 2. 2, 3. Eph. 6. 12. They are called the rulers of the darkness of this world. That is, poor ignorant souls, ⟨p. 123⟩that were lying in our ignorance. And that not some of us only, but all of us.
First, From the roaring Lion. So is our adversary, the Devil called, 1 Pet. 5. 8. This is he that Christ hath delivered us from. We were all in the Paw of this lion, and Christ came and delivered us from him. This is the D vid that slew the lion, and the bear, and saved us, when we were like to be destroyed. When Satan did think to triumph over Christ, then did Christ triumph over him.