A26694:341
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.
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.
[…], In the […] of her converts. Herein God hath blessed this n•tion above other n• tions, an• herein we have cause to bless the Lord. There is but little of the profession of Godliness in other nations, to what there is in this n•tion, […] a great glory to any place or people to have a multitude of converts born to God out of it. This was the commendation of those places, that this, and that man was born there, Psalm 87. 4, 5, 6. This is cause of singular joy and praise which they were wont to sing to the Lord in those days with instruments of Music.
〈…〉, In the 〈…〉 of her converts. Herein God hath blessed this n•tion above other n• tions, an• herein we have cause to blesse the Lord. There is but little of the profession of Godliness in other nations, to what there is in this n•tion, 〈…〉 a great glory to any place or people to have a multitude of converts born to God out of it. This was the commendation of those places, that this, and that man was born there, Ps•lm 87. 4, 5, 6. This is cause of singular joy and praise which they were wont to sing to the Lord in those days with instruments of Musick.
Secondly, In the honour of her Sabbaths. ⟨p. 141⟩This is that, my Brethren, where in the Lord hath vouchsafed singular favour to this nation Oh, bless God for honouring this nation with his Sabbaths as he hath done: that they should be so sa•ctisied as they be. Nehemiah reckoneth this as a singular mercy of God to them. So