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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.
Sixthly, You are the men of his Counsel, when others are strangers and aliens. You are no more foreigners and strangers, but fellow Citizens and of the household of God. You are the attendants of his person, you are of his privy Counsel. You are the friends of God. This was Abraham's privilege, Jam. 2. That he was called the friend of God. Brethren, all the long and magnificent titles of all the Monarchs of the Earth do not signify half so much as this that I am speaking to you. Now this is your prerogative. Henceforth I call you not servants but friends: and why so? because you are the men of his Counsel. The servant knoweth not what his Lord doth, but whatsoever I have heard of the Father that have I declared unto you. Herein Christ hath put a marvellous distinction between you and the men of the world, I may say of you as Christ of them, blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him. So Psa. 147. He showeth his word unto Jacob, & his statutes unto ⟨p. 161⟩Israel. He hath not dealt so with any Nation.
Sixthly, You are the men of his Counsel, when others are strangers and aliens. You are no more foreigners and strangers, but fellow Citizens and of the houshold of God. You are the attendants of his person, you are of his privy Counsel. You are the friends of God. This was Abrahams priviledge, Jam. 2. That he was called the friend of God. Brethren, all the long and magnificent titles of all the Monarchs of the Earth do not signifie half so much as this that I am speaking to you. Now this is your prerogative. Henceforth I call you not servants but friends: and why so? because you are the men of his Counsel. The servant knoweth not what his Lord doth, but whatsoever I have heard of the Father that have I declared unto you. Herein Christ hath put a marvellous distinction between you and the men of the world, I may say of you as Christ of them, blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him. So Psa. 147. He sheweth his word unto Jacob, & his statutes unto ⟨p. 161⟩