A26694:442
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.
Quest. Wherein doth the Love of Christ appear to be a surpassing love? This appears in his putting himself into our Nature. His putting himself into our room. Putting our lives into his purchase, putting his name into our bond. Putting our names into his will. Putting his spirit into our hearts. Putting his glory into our hands.
Quest. WHerein doth the Love of Christ appear to be a surpassing love? This appears in his putting himself into our Nature. His putting himself into our room. Putting our lives into his purchase, putting his name into our bond. Putting our names into his will. Putting his spirit into our hearts. Putting his glory into our hands.
First, It appears in putting himself into our nature. What admirable love and condescension was this? as we were Creatures there was an infinite distance between us and Christ: much more as we are sinners, but this infinite ⟨p. 196⟩condescension was nothing to the love of Christ. He stepped from the Court of his angels, to the reproaches of men at one step. O what a step was this! for Christ to take our nature upon him, is more than for an Emperor to become a beggar. Yea there is no comparison that can express it. This was love indeed; surpassing love, that the Lord Jesus Christ should have such a love to man: that he should become of […] to sinners: flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone; here is matchless unparalleled love.
First, It appears in putting himself into our nature. What admirable love and condescention was this? as we were Creatures there was an infinite distance between us and Christ: much more as we are sinners, but this infinite ⟨p. 196⟩condescention was nothing to the love of Christ. He stept from the Court of his angels, to the reproaches of men at one step. O what a step was this! for Christ to take our nature upon him, is more than for an Emperour to become a beggar. Yea there is no comparison that can express it. This was love indeed; surpassing love, that the Lord Jesus Christ should have such a love to man: that he should become of to sinners: flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone; here is matchless unparallel'd love.