A26694:464
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.
Secondly, His lips are lips of love, the kisses of his mouth are sweeter than wine; the words of his mouth are better than life. His lips drop as the Honey-comb. Never man spake like this man: all that heard him bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. Well did Mary choose to sit at the feet of Christ, rather than at the feast: she found more sweet in the Honeycomb of Christs lips, than at the feast. Let us but look over the last sermon of Christ, and the last prayer of Christ, and how may this set us a loving of Christ.
Secondly, His lips are lips of love, the kisses of his mouth are sweeter than wine; the words of his mouth are better than life. His lips drop as the Honey-comb. Never man spake like this man: all that heard him bare him witnesse, and wondred at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. Well did Mary chuse to sit at the seet of Christ, rather than at the feast: she found more sweet in the Honeycomb of Christs lips, than at the feast. Let us but look over the last sermon of Christ, and the last prayer of Christ, and how may this set us a loving of Christ.
Look over his last sermon, John 14. 15 and ⟨p. 209⟩16. chapters, how lovingly doth he dispute down the unbelieving fears of our hearts? Let not your heart be troubled. And he propounds loving arguments: though he be gone, he will send us the comforter: and he will not be long from us neither, and then we shall be in no worse a case or place than he himself. And in the mean time, his going from us is out of love to us: not because he wanted love for us, but because he went to prepare a place for us.