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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.
Secondly, It will appear what blessed news this is, if you consider, how he hath saved you. He hath saved you two ways, by might, and by merit.
first, By merit, Brethren, your salvation cost your redeemer dear, no less a price than his own invaluable blood. O believer, look upon thy self, art not thou a worthless thing to be redeemed with the price of Christs blood? O how should we admire the goodness of Christ here? we are not worthy that Christ […] s•end one of his thoughts upon us, much ⟨p. 129⟩less that he should spend his blood for us.
•irst, By merit, Brethren, your salvation cost your redeemer dear, no less a price than his own invaluable blood. O believer, look upon thy self, art not thou a worthless thing to be redeemed with the price of Christs blood? O how should we admire the goodness of Christ here? we are not worthy that Christ 〈…〉 s•end one of his thoughts upon us, much ⟨p. 129⟩less that he should spend his blood for us.
Secondly, By might, my brethren, it was absolutely requisite for our salvation, that our redeemer. as he should be of infinite merit, so of infinite might. If he had not been of infinite merit, he could never have been purchaser of heaven for us. The soul of one man is more worth than a whole world: and then what worth or value must that be of, that is able to buy a world of souls? and yet this purchaser must be able to buy heaven too: and this hath Christ done for us. Could heaven and earth have done this? no, no, it would have broken them all if they had done it. But now Christ hath done all for us: and therefore he must be of infinite merit. And not infinite in merit only but might too: for he was to bear all the wrath of God, and to bring us off with victory. If the wrath of Gods finger be so intolerable, that it makes poor creatures to cry out under it, what is the wrath of his loins? and if the wrath of God against one man is so great, what is his wrath against so many men?