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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.
A SACRAMENTAL Speech, grounded on
Eph. V. 2. But walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice unto God.
MY beloved, this subject, of the love of Christ to sinners, is indeed an inconceivable Subject. I have been backward to meddle with it, for how shall I speak of that which I do not know? For the love of Christ passeth all knowledge. Yet I shall a little open it to you, and shall make it appear that the love of Christ is great to his people: though I cannot comprehend it in the length and breadth, and height and depth of it, yet this we may know, that he hath a very tender love to us, Rev. 1. 5. To him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. Christ hath loved us: and would you ⟨p. 206⟩have a proof of his love to us? he hath loved us and washed us. He found us in our sins as swine in the mire; and yet he loved us and washed us, when he was fain to stop his breath as it were and hold his nostrils, yet he would come and wash us: yea he would make a bath of his own blood. Christ commended Mary, that she washed his feet with her tears: but how is the love of Christ commended in that he hath washed us in his blood? Christ hath our names down upon his book,