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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
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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.
Fourthly, It appears in putting his name into our bonds. Herein is the love of Christ manifested, in that he should become surety and bound for us. You know that the surety is to set his name to the bond. Now a man will be very wary for whom he is bound; the man is not a man that is insufficient. Did you ever hear of a man that bound himself for one, that he knew that he should pay it himself? thus hath Christ done for us: he knew that all our debts would come upon him; and yet notwithstanding he did engage himself for us. Beloved, the debt of sin is a very formidable debt: it is such a debt as if so be, the debt of the least sin had been laid upon all the Saints and Angels in glory to give satisfaction for it, they had bin drowned in everlasting perdition. But now Christ undertook to pay for all out of his own stock, though he knew what it would cost him, if he did become bound for us, O what love is […]!
Fourthly, It appears in putting his name into our bonds. Herein is the love of Christ manifested, in that he should become surety and bound for us. You know that the surety is to set his name to the bond. Now a man will be very wary sor whom he is bound; the man is not a man that is insufficient. Did you ever hear of a man that bound himself for one, that he knew that he should pay it himself? thus hath Christ done for us: he knew that all our debts would come upon him; and yet notwithstanding he did engage himself for us. Beloved, the debt of sin is a very formidable debt: it is such a debt as if so be, the debt of the least sin had been laid upon all the Saints and Angels in glory to give satisfaction for it, they had bin drowned in everlasting perdition. But now Christ undertook to pay for all out of his own stock, though he knew what it would cost him, if he did become bound for us, O what love is 〈…〉!
Fifthly, It appears in putting our names into his will. Brethren, herein is the love of Christ seen towards his people, in that he hath distinguished between them and others. When he made his last VVill and Testament, he put in believers names and left out the rest, Rev. 21. 27