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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.
First, methinks I hear unbelief objecting from the terribleness of Gods threatenings. O says the soul, my heart melteth within me, while I hear the wrath of God threatened against sin, methinks I come lately from Mount Sinai, where I heard the Law given with the Trumpet, & a shout, and a curse pronounced upon all that kept not the words of this Law. O how can my soul bear up against all these curses?
First, methinks I hear unbelief objecting from the terribleness of Gods threatnings. O sayes the soul, my heart melteth within me, while I hear the wrath of God threatned against sin, methinks I come lately from Mount Sinai, wher I heard the Law given withthe Trumpet, & a shout, and a curse pronounced upon all that kept not the words of this Law. O how can my soul bear up against all these curses?
But now how sweetly doth the cross of Christ, and death of Christ answer thy fears? Hear thy Saviours language.
But now how sweetly doth the crosse of Christ, and death of Christ answer thy fears? Hear thy Saviors language.
O soul be not afraid, do not thou fear and flag: all these threatenings were intended against me; all were fulfilled upon me. Justice hath nothing to say to thee: all the curses are met together upon me. That is the meaning of it: that thou mayst be free, though I take in the wrath of the Lord into my own body. Oh! behold me, behold me: see how full I am of the wrath of God in body and soul: my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death.
O soul be not afraid, do not thou fear and flag: all these threatnings were intended against me; all wer fulsilled upon me. Justice hath nothing to say to thee: all the curses are met together upon me. That is the meaning of it: that thou mayst be free, though I take in the wrath of the Lord into my own body. Oh! behold me, behold me: see how full I am of the wrath of God in body and soul: my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death.