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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.
Answ. It must be a feeling, and a lasting remembrance.
First, A feeling remembrance, it should not be a bare Historical remembrance of Christ, but all your affections should be drawn out after Christ. He did not only remember you, his remembrance of you was an affectionate remembrance; he hath made it to appear with a witness. Such should our remembrance of Christ be.
First, A feeling remembrance, it should not be a bare Historical remembrance of Christ, but all your affections should be drawn out after Christ. He did not onely remember you, his remembrance of you was an affectionate remembrance; he hath made it to appear with a witnesse. Such should our remembrance of Christ be.
(Secondly,) A lasting remembrance, it should not be at the quickening of a Sermon or the like, but an abiding remembrance of him. Brethren, our remembrance of Christ should be a living remembrance. It should be with us as with a loving husband that hath lost his wife; it seems that where ever he is, she should be with him: thus it should be with us, we should have Christ ever with us. What Solomon speaks of the Law of Christ we should say of the remembrance of Christ. When we go it should lead us, when we awake it should talk with us, ⟨p. 203⟩Prov. 26. 22. So Cant. 1. 13. A bundle of Myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lye all night betwixt my breasts. That is, say the Dutch Divines, the love of my beloved, especially of his death and sufferings, shall continually be upon my heart; and I will keep it close with me, to be my Nose-gay: and the like. He shall lye between my breasts; that is, I will keep the remembrance of his love upon my heart to comfort me.