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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.
You read, how when Daniels enemies were cast into the Lions den, that they brake all their bones before they came to the bottom of the den. O how wouldst thou have been torn, had ⟨p. 193⟩the Justice of God taken hold of thee!
You read, how when Daniels enemies were cast into the Lions den, that they brake all their bones before they came to the bottome of the den. O how wouldst thou have been torn, had ⟨p. 193⟩the Justice of God taken hold of thee!
Sixthly, Infinite wisdom at cost upon mere worthlessness. God expects the blood of his own Son, which was of infinite value, to redeem worthless man. Would you not wonder to see a wise man to be changing Pearls for pebbles? yet here it is a greater wonder: the wise God, redeeming by the death of his own Son, sinful man out of the hands of his own justice. Why what is man? are not all the nations of the world as nothing before him? and yet upon this nothing, this vanity, is Gods infinite wisdom at this cost, that he might save us from eternal death.
Sixthly, Insinite wisdome at cost upon meer worthlessenesse. God expects the blood of his own Son, which was of insinite value, to redeem worthless man. Would you not wonder to see a wise man to be changing Pearls for pebbles? yet here it is a greater wonder: the wise God, redeeming by the death of his own Son, sinful man out of the hands of his own justice. Why what is man? are not all the nations of the world as nothing before him? and yet upon this nothing, this vanity, is Gods insinite wisdome at this cost, that he might save us from eternal death.