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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 is much aggravated by this, because this is all that he expects from you, for all that he hath suffered for you. Christ hath done and suffered beyond all you can conceive, or I can express to you: and what Homage doth he now expect from you? nothing but that you should be thankful to him. And will you be unthankful now for this mercy? This is that he expects by way of requital and return, that you be thankful, Had the Lord required some great thing of you, or some hard condition, if he would have dyed for you and redeemed you, would you not have done it? and how much more, now he hath done it, and and requires no more but this, that you be thankful? had you lain but one million of years in hell, with what gladness would you have heard that sound, that he would have redeemed you? would you have stood upon the terms? no, no, any terms then should have served.
Secondly, It is much aggravated by this, because this is all that he expects from you, for all that he hath suffered for you. Christ hath done and suffered beyond all you can conceive, or I can expresse to you: and what Homage doth he now expect from you? nothing but that you should be thankful to him. And will you be unthankful now for this mercy? This is that he expects by way of requital and return, that you be thankful, Had the Lord required some great thing of you, or some hard condition, if he would have dyed for you and redeemed you, would you not have done it? and how much more, now he hath done it, and and requires no more but this, that you be thankful? had you lain but one million of years in hell, with what gladness would you have heard that sound, that he would have redeemed you? would you have stood upon the terms? no, no, any terms then should have served.
Third Use, Then prepare to receive your Saviour. Oh if he be come, take heed that you receive him in. Let him not complain of you as he did of his native Country-men the Jews, that he came unto his own, and his own received him not. When this news come, that there was a Saviour born, one would have ⟨p. 134⟩thought that all the world should have received him with triumph: but there was no room for him in all the world, but he was thrust out in the mnger. Let it not be so with you.