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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.
Letters › Letter: To the most beloved people the flock of Christ in Taunton, Salvation.
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.
[…] friend loves at all times, and a ⟨p. 241⟩brother is born for adversity, Pro. 17. 17. He is not such a brother as Davids were Psa. 69. 8. Or as Jobs were, Job 6. 14, 15, 16, 17. He will own and delight in his, in their afflictions, Canticles 2. 14. 4. you may not question his affection. Love is the Natural duty, between Brethren, 1 Pet. 3. 8. Christ hath not only the name but the heart of a brother. He is not such a brother as Cain, that said, am I my brothers keeper, that hated his brother in his heart. Nor as Jacob, that took his brother by the heel, a supplanter, that deceived him of the birth-right. But such a brother as Joseph was, who was all along his eminent type. 1. Joseph Received great unkindnesses, and wretched usage from his Brethren. They conspired against his life, they sold him and pitied him not, when they saw the anguish of his soul. And is not the blood of Christ to be found upon the skirts of his Brethren? Touch him, and the body will bleed upon you. Look upon his mangled body: why, these are the wounds that he hath received in the house of his friends, by the hands of his brethren: I mean by their sins. Isa. 53. 5. 2dly. He showed melting affections to his brethren after their unkindness to him. He wept aloud over them, Gen. 45. 1, 2. to wit with tears of love, and joy. His bowels yearned over his brother, and he seeks where to weep, Gen. 43. 30. But there are no bowels to Christs. No yearnings like to his. How unkindly had his brethren dealt with him? One sold him, another denied him, all forsook him. Yet when one would have expected a ⟨p. 242⟩Message of diance he sends them a message of peace. The sweetest tidings that ever were sent;