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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.
MY dearly beloved brethren, you have often heard our Saviour preaching to you by his Ambassadors: but now he is come to preach to you, as it were, in his own person. What was said of Abel is true of Christ, he being dead yet speaketh. Christ being dead yet preacheth to you.
MY dearly beloved brethren, you have often heard our Savior preaching to you by his Ambassadors: but now he is come to preach to you, as it were, in his own person. What was said of Abel is true of Christ, he being dead yet speaketh. Christ being dead yet preacheth to you.
But what doth Christ preach to you, now he is dead?
Why, he preacheth no other thing to you, now he is dead, than he did in his life: Repent, and believe the Gospel. That, Christ preacheth to you, faith and repentance, repentance towards God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
First, Repentance towards God, see here ⟨p. 228⟩Christian what thy sins hath done. Now is a time to have your hearts filled with sorrow, and your faces with shame, to see what you ave brought upon Jesus Christ. Look upon him, every wound in his body, and thorn in his head, calls upon the to repent. The wounds in his side, and the blood that flowed from thence, calls upon thee to repent. Now let thy repentance by stirring, seeing he calls thee to repentance, what shall stir thee up to repent, if this shall not? here you may see the Lords severe wrath against sin. See it here in the beloved Son of God, who is slain before your eyes for your sins. Ah, Christian, if thou hadst stood with Abraham, and seen the fire of Sodom. Or with Adam, and seen God commanding, and then thrusting them out of the garden. If thou hadst been in heaven, and seen what the wrath of God did there, what work it made when the Angels sinned. Or if thou hadst been in hell, and seen and heard the damned there, how wouldst thou look upon thy sin? O see here, more than all this; Gods wrath burning against his own Son, for thy sin.