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…

(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⟩the tree, and told him that salvation was come to his house, how glad was the mans heart? Luke 19. O methinks I see with what unspeakable joy he received him. He thought not of Christ's coming to his house: his highest ambition was that he might have a sight of Christ: and Christ sees and takes notice of it, and tells him that Salvation was come to his house. O methinks, I should see thee looking as he did, when Christ will come this way where thou art. Why, now he is come in his ordinances, now receive him joyfully, take him into thy heart. Let thy joy break out, as the waters of Jordan did; or as when the Lord broke up the fountain of the great deep. Brethren, one would think, that one should need no arguments to persuade miserable captives to receive a Saviour. O how welcome would such offers be to them that are in captivity? Brethren, if ever you have seen your lost condition without Christ, you cannot but receive him when he is offered to you. O methinks this Name of JESUS should be marrow to your bones, and wine to your hearts, and Music to your ears. Oh as God hath, so do you. give him a name above every name. This blessed name, the name of Jesus, methinks it should be as ointment poured forth upon you, giving a sweet smell.