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…

Secondly, You are the pillars of his name, when others are but broken, useless pot shards. My brethren, God hath raised you up for quite another end, than he hath others. You know what the Lord speak of Pharaoh, Exod. 9. 16. And in every deed for this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power, that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. That God might show in him the power of his wrath and severity. But now beloved, you are raised up for another end, that you may bear up the name of God, and be the instruments of the glory of God before all men. God hath no active glory from the rest of the world. But you are the people whom God hath raised up on purpose for his name and for his glory, • S•. 18. 18. Absalom, we read had taken and reared a pillar for himself: and he called the pillar after his own name. Thus hath the Lord God erected you as pillars to keep up […] name in remembrance. For the unreasonable ⟨p. 156⟩Creatures they cannot, but by dumb and silent […] to man, praise their Creator. For the ungodly, they do the contrary, they dishonour his name. And were it not for you, the name of God would not be kept up in the world. God would be cast out, and the very remembrance of him out of his own world. Oh my brethren, I may say of you, of every one of you that are believers, as God speak concerning Paul, Act. 9. 15. You are chosen vessels to bear Gods name before the world. Alas! for others! of how little use are they in the world? this is a miserable case to be of no use; better to have no being than to be of no use. How contemptible doth the Lord speak of that wicked King Coniah? he calls him a despised broken Idol. Such a kind of one is every unsanctified person, they are but as broken useless pot-shards: let them be so great as they will, yea they are worse than for no purpose, they are for bad purposes. Oh, what cause have you then to bless the Lord, that you are the people that must bear up his name?

Secondly, You are the pill•rs of his name, when others are but broken, useless pot sheards. My brethren, God hath raised you up for quite another end, than he hath others. You know what the Lord speak of Pharaoh,