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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.
Now concerning this coming, I shall show you. First, Who it is that is come. Secondly, How he is come. Thirdly, Whence he is come. Fourthly, Why he is come.
Now concerning this coming, I shall shew you. First, Who it is that is come. Secondly, How he is come. Thirdly, Whence he is come. Fourthly, Why he is come.
First, Who it is that is come. This is the first thing that I shall desire you to consider with reference to the coming of Christ.
(First,) The bridegroom is come. God sends his Ministers to you with that cry Math. 25. 6. Behold the bridegroom cometh. O with what joy doth the Bride receive her Bridegroom? so should believers receive Christ. Arise you Virgins then and come away. Awake you virgins this is the call of your Bridegroom, ⟨p. 174⟩Cant. 2. 8. The voice of my beloved! behold he cometh, &c. And what was this voice of her beloved, that doth so ravish her heart? see verse 10. arise my love; my fair one, and come away, and so ver. 13. Christ calls again and again; and you should come away.
(First,) The bridegroom is come. God sends his Ministers to you with that cry Math. 25. 6. Behold the bridegroom cometh. O with what joy doth the Bride receive her Bridgegroom? so should believers receive Christ. Arise you Virgins then and come away. Awake you virgins this is the call of your Bridegroom, ⟨p. 174⟩