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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.
(Secondly,) From the Court of his angels. The Lord Jesus Christ, he was the brightness of his Fathers glory, the express image of his person, that made his angels spirits and his Ministers a flaming fire. All the angels you must know were his Messengers. And what abasure was here, that he should come from the company of angels to be contemned by the basest of men!
(Thirdly,) From the bosom of his Father. The Lord Jesus Christ, he was the Son of Gods delight: his darling; the beloved object of his soul, Math. 11. 27. Christ is he that lies in the bosom of the Father; and he alone is able to reveal the secrets of the Lord to the world, so John 1. 18. Now that the Lord Jesus Christ ⟨p. 178⟩should come from the bosom of God, to the belly of hell, that he should leave the glory of heaven, for the torments of hell, and all for our sakes; what a strange wonder of Love was this! hence was it that Christ came for us. This is the bread that came down from heaven, that a man may eat of and not dye.
(Thirdly,) From the bosome of his Father. The Lord Jesus Christ, he was the Son of Gods delight: his darling; the beloved object of his soul, Math. 11. 27. Christ is he that lyes in the bosome of the Father; and he alone is able to reveal the secrets of the Lord to the world, so John 1. 18. Now that the Lord Jesus Christ ⟨p. 178⟩should come from the bosome of God, to the belly of hell, that he should leave the glory of heaven, for the torments of hell, and all for our sakes; what a strange wonder of Love was this! hence was it that Christ came for us. This is the bread that came down from heaven, that a man may eat of and not dye.