A26694:346
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.
Secondly, If we come nearer, & look upon the Place of our desires, you shall find that he hath not dealt so with any other place. If you consider it, in the long […] of your Ministry. The powerful success of the Gospel. In the peace and unity of its professors. In the plenty and variety of its provision. In the strange preservation of your liberty. In s•ving you by your enemies Counsel. In eminent and gracious returns of your prayers. in keeping you from the Ecclesiastical Courts. In your glorious Salvations and deliverances. Put these nine things together, and tell me whether God […] dealt so with any place as with this place.
Secondly, If we com nearer, & look upon the Place of our desires, you shall find that he hath not dealt so with any other place. If you consider it, in the long 〈…〉 of your Ministry. The powerful success of the Gospel. In the peace and unity of its professors. In the plenty and variety of its provision. In the strange preservation of your liberty. In s•ving you by your enemies Counsel. In emin•nt and gracious returns of your prayers. in keeping you from the Ecclesiastical Courts. In your glorious Salvations and deliverances. Put these nine things together, and tell me whether God 〈…〉 dealt so with any place as with this place.
First, In the long continuance […] your Ministry. Forty years was God striving with Israel, but many more years hath God been striving with Taunton i• the powerful preaching of the Gospel. We read of Gods coming the first and second year, and […] no fruit, would have cut it down the third, had not […] dresser prayed for it. But 'tis not three years, but threescore years that God hath come waiting on Taunton, notwithstanding all their praying, and their great unprofitableness for the greatest part of them. I beseech you think of it. Is it a little mercy? there are many of you that have been born and bred under the powerful preaching of the Gospel. Look upon many other places, and how many may you see left to blind guides? Oh, bless God that you have not been bred up under such