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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.
(First,) To seek. That is one end of his coming, so Luke 19. 10. And who do you think that he is come to seek? It is us that were lost. All we like sheep have gone astray, now Christ is that great & good shepherd that came to seek and to save that which was lost, in Luke 15 you read of the lost groat, the lost sheep, and the lost Son: and who do you think this was; this was the lost sinner, ver. 32. who was it, think you, that sought us, and found us when we were lost? It was Jesus Christ: it was he that sought us. We had never found him, had not he sought us. I am found of them that sought me not, […]. 65. 1. If Christ had stayed for us till we sought him, our salvation had never been wrought. The Lord Jesus Christ he sought us not, and laid hold on us. He took not hold of angels, but of the seed of Abraham. In effectual calling, there he takes hold of the sinner, he is fain to run after them and stop them, or else they would run into perdition.
(First,) To seek. That is one end of his coming, so Luke 19. 10. And who do you think that he is come to seek? It is us that were lost. All we like sheep have gone astray, now Christ is that great & good sheapherd that came to seek and to save that which was lost, in Luke 15 you read of the lost groat, the lost sheep, and the lost Son: and who do you think this was; this was the lost sinner, ver. 32. who was it, think you, that sought us, and found us when we were lost? It was Jesus Christ: it was he that sought us. We had never found him, had not he sought us. I am found of them that sought me not, 〈…〉. 65. 1. If Christ had stayed for us till we sought him, our salvation had never been wrought. The Lord Jesus Christ he sought us not, and laid hold on us. He took not hold of angels, but of the seed of Abraham. In effectual calling, there he takes hold of the sinner, he is fain to run after them and stop them, or else they would run into perdition.