A26694:354
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.
Seventhly, In eminent and gracious returns to your prayers. Brethren, this is not to be ⟨p. 147⟩forgotten this day. Returns of prayer, do certainly call for great returns of praise. It hath been observed by those that have bin longer with you, than I, that they never remember that God was earnestly sought unto for any particular mercy in this place but he did s•d a visible return; except once, when if God had sent you an answer according to your prayer, it had been the hazarding of the people of God in this place. So that I may say to you, what people is like to you, who have God so near unto you in all that you have […] upon him for?
Seventhly, In eminent and gracious returns to your prayers. Brethren, this is not to be ⟨p. 147⟩forgotten this day. Returns of prayer, do certainly call for great returns of praise. It hath been observed by those that have bin longer with you, than I, that they never remember that God was earnestly sought unto sor any particular mercy in this place but he did s•d a visible return; except once, when if God had sent you an answer according to your prayer, it had been the hazzarding of the people of God in this place. So that I may say to you, what people is like to you, who have God so near unto you in all that you have 〈…〉 upon him sor?
Eighthly, In keeping you •om the • astical Courts. This is a mercy that we should be mindful of. Indeed all along the Church malignant, have been one of the persecuting enemies of the Church o• God. Witness the Scribes and Pharisees. Witness the […], who were all a long the stirrers up of men against the Church. And so in divers […] men of late. Nay, and at this day, through the rigour of these Courts, especially in óther Counties, many stand excommunicated: many are threatened with Writs, and some taken and cast into prison for term life, unless God raise some unexpected means. Now of all places one would have thought that we should have been dragged to prison by them. And yet you see how God hath preserved us.