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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.
But how must your faith accept of Christ?
(First,) Accept the person of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is offered in a marriage covenant to you in the Gospel: and a marriage, is not between a person and patrimony; but person and person: true faith is not only for the benefits of Christ but the person of Christ. There is great difference between the sick man, and the sick spouses taking the physician: the sick man takes him for his skill, but the spouse for his person. The sick man takes him till the cure be done, and than values not the physician: but the spouse for hers in all conditions for ever; she takes his person. Thus must your faith do; you must choose the Lord Jesus Christ, not for the salvation only that he brings, but the excellency that is in him. As Christ will not be contented with any thing of yours, but you: so should you do, be contented with nothing of Christ, but himself.
(First,) Accept the person of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is offered in a marriage covenant to you in the Gospel: and a marriage, is not between a person and patrimony; but person and person: true faith is not onely for the benefits of Christ but the person of Christ. There is great difference between the sick man, and the sick spouses taking the physician: the sick man takes him for his skill, but the spouse for his person. The sick man taks him till the cure be done, and than values not the physician: but the spouse for hers in all conditions for ever; she takes his person. Thus must your faith do; you must chuse the Lord Jesus Christ, not for the salvation onely that he brings, but the excellency that is in him. As Christ will not be contented with any thing of yours, but you: so should you do, be contented with nothing of Christ, but himself.
Secondly, You must accept the pardon of Christ. Christ, with his person doth offer you all his […]. And as 'tis in marriage