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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, 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. Luke 7. She received Christ in her heart. This is the entertainment, that he is well pleased with: receive him thus, and this will be acceptable to him. Though thou hast nothing at all in thee, but the sense of thy nothingness, Christ will be sure to accept of this.
(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 sence of your everlasting unworthiness. Receive him with a lively sence 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 Pharisce. Luke 7. She received Christ in her heart. This is the entertainment, that he is well pleased with: receive him thus, and this will be acceptable to him. Though thou hast nothing at all in thee, but the sence of thy nothingness, Christ will be sure to accept of this.
(Secondly,) Receive him, as •cheus did, Joyfully, When Christ called him down from ⟨p. 135⟩