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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.
Mercy and truth are met together, how can this be? it seems they were at a great distance, & could not be brought together. Truth said, that man should dye: & mercy said that man should be saved. Truth said, if he dye not, I am a liar; and where then is the honour of my truth? but mercy pleaded, if he dye, where is the honour of my Grace and mercy? Why now, wisdom puts in a surety, and that •oes for the principal.
Mercy and truth are met together, how can this be? it seems they were at a great distance, & could not be brought together. Truth said, that man should dye: & mercy said that man should be saved. Truth said, if he dye not, I am a liar; and where then is the honor of my truth? but mercy pleaded, if he dye, where is the honor of my Grace and mercy? Why now, wisdome puts in a surety, and that •oes for the principal.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. How can this be? Gods justice and righteousness did require that man should give satisfaction: but this is all reconciled in Christ, he reconciled God and man together.
Fourthly, The greatest good coming out of the womb of the greatest evil. Sin, is the mother of all evil. You will say, can any good come out of such a womb as this? It is true, it cannot naturally come; but God did so order it, that it should be the occasion of it. Were it not a wonder, to see grapes come of thorns? and Olives of thistles? such a wonder you may ⟨p. 190⟩see in Christ. You may see, out of the sin of man, comes great glory to God, and good to man.