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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.
Again, hereby is way made for magnifying Gods mercy. The sin of man, as God hath ordered it, hath given way to God in the demonstration of his mercy in forgiving, and his justice in punishing It could not have bin thought, that God had been of so gracious a nature, able to put up such great affronts as man had given him, had not sin given him occasion to magni• his mercy.
Secondly, Again, as the sin of man hath given occasion to the advancing of Gods glory, so for the promoting of mans good. By this man is raised to a higher state of happiness and felicity than ever he should have been. Now there is a nearer conjunction between God and man, than ever was before the fall, or ever should have been had it not been for the sin and fall of man. Before it was said, that man was made a little lower than the angels: but now it may be truly said, that he is so much higher than the Angels: more nearly joined to God. Had man continued in innocence, he had had only a lengthening out of his temporal life in ⟨p. 191⟩paradise but now by his sin Christ hath opened the door of heaven to him. O then wonder at the power of Christ!
Secondly, Again, as the sin of man hath given occasion to the advancing of Gods glory, so for the promoting of mans good. By this man is raised to a higher state of happiness and felicity than ever he should have been. Now there is a nearer conjunction between God and man, than ever was before the fall, or ever should have been had it not been for the sin and fall of man. Before it was said, that man was made a little lower than the angels: but now it may be truely said, that he is so much higher than the Angels: more nearly joyned to God. Had man continued in innocence, he had had onely a lengthening out of his temporal life in ⟨p. 191⟩paradise but now by his sin Christ hath opened the door of heaven to him. O then wonder at the power of Christ!