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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.
Question, But how shall we receive him? I shall show you whither and how.
Question, But how shall we receive him? I shall shew you whither and how.
First. Whither you shall receive him. receive him into your hearts; not in your stall, as he was at first, but into your parlour, into your hearts. Your parlour, is but a stable. Thou mayst wonder that Christ will accept of thy heart, send the key of your hearts to Christ, let him take his choice where to lye: give him the upper room in your hearts.
First. Whither you shall receive him. receive him into your hearts; not in your stal, as he was at first, but into your parlour, into your hearts. Your parlour, is but a stable. Thou mayst wonder that Christ will accept of thy heart, send the key of your hearts to Christ, let him take his choice where to lye: give him the upper room in your hearts.
Secondly, How, or after what manner you should receive him.
(First,) As the Centurion did, humbly. I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof. So should you receive him, with a deep sense of your everlasting unworthiness. Receive him with a lively sense of your sins, that you have wronged him. This is a right receiving of Christ, when he is received penitently. Thus did that woman entertain him: and Christ liked better of this, than of the Pharisee.