A26694:355
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.
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.
Eighthly, In keeping you •om the • astical Courts. This is a mercy that we should be mindful os. Indeed all along the Churchmalignant, have been one os the persecuting enemies of the Church o• God. Witness the Scribes and Pharises. Witness the 〈…〉, who were all a long the stirrers up os 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 threatned with Writs, and some taken and cast into prison for term life, unless God raise som 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.
Ninthly, In your glorious Salvations and d• liverances. Oh, my Brethren remember and forget not the dealings of God with this place. Let God hear of it throughout your praises now ⟨p. 148⟩