A26694:425
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, God suffering in the flesh, well may he have his name wonderful upon this account. 'tis said that the Philosopher, observing the unnatural cclipse of the Sun at the suffering ⟨p. 189⟩of Christ, cried out, either the God of nature is suffering, or the world is at an end. When Christ was suffering, it was God that suffered, though he did not suffer in the Godhead, but in the Manhood. Beloved, if you should have seen the judgement, that befell, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, would you not have been astonished at such a sight as this was? much more if hell should have opened, and you have seen the torments of the damned, would you not have been astonished, and wonder at this? but in this that God should suffer, is more then if all the men in the world should have suffered to all eternity. O how did the angels stand by the Cross, wondering, to see him whom they adored and worshipped, to be mocked and Crucified.
Secondly, God suffering in the flesh, well may he have his name wonderful upon this account. 'tis said that the Philosopher, observing the unnatural cclipse of the Sun at the suffering ⟨p. 189⟩of Christ, cryed out, either the God of nature is suffering, or the world is at an end. When Christ was suffering, it was God that suffered, though he did not suffer in the Godhead, but in the Manhood. Beloved, if you should have seen the judgement, that befel, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, would you not have been astonished at such a sight as this was? much more if hell should have opened, and you have seen the torments of the damned, would you not have been astonished, and wonder at this? but in this that God should suffer, is more then if all the men in the world should have suffered to all eternity. O how did the angels stand by the Crosse, wondering, to see him whom they adored and worshipped, to be mocked and Crucified.
Thirdly, Justice and mercy sweetly reconciled. The Justice and mercy of God, seemed to be, as it were, at a controversy about fallen man.