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, 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 ⟨p. 144⟩Ministers, and in such places. It was the lot of many, and it might have been your lot to have been brought up there.

First, In the long continuance 〈…〉 your Ministry. Forty years was God striving with Isracl, but many more years hath God been striving with Taunton i• the powerful preaching of the Gospel. We read of Gods comming the first and s•cond year, and 〈…〉 no f•uit, would have cut it down the third, had not 〈…〉 dressor prayed sor it. But 'tis not three years, but threescore years that God hath come waiting on Taunton, notwithstanding all their praying, and their great unprositableness 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 ⟨p. 144⟩Ministers, and in such places. It was the lot of many, and it might have been your lot to have been brought up there.