A26694:562
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.
Phil. 3. 13, 14. This ONE thing I do, I press toward the Mark.
Q. How may we come to make Religion our business?
Q. HOw may we come to make Religion our business?
Rule. 1. You must throughly acquaint your selves with the rule and the compass that Religion steers by. Unless the Mariner know every point of his Compass, he is like to make but foul work of it. The word is a believers Compass, Gal. 6. 16. As many as walk according to This rule, &c. A believer walks by Rule, and by this Rule, the Rule of the word; you can never manage the business of Religion, except you do throughly know, and often eye your Rule, and put the rule to your work. How can you trade religiously unless you know the Rules you are to deal by? Or pray rightly, if ignorant of the Rules you are to pray by? Beloved, ⟨p. 264⟩the commandment is exceeding broad, and prescribes you Rules for your whole Man, and for the right behaving of your selves in every part of your conversation; Oh hide the word in your hearts! lay up the Rules you are to work by; and the Rules that you are to give by; the Rules that you are to speak by; and the Rules that you are to hear by; and the Rules that you are to examine your selves by: Be sure there be no part of your conversation, but that you have some Rules that you do set to your selves about it.
Rule. 1. You must throughly acquaint your selves with the rule and the compass that Religion steers by. Unless the Mariner know every point of his Compass, he is like to make but foul work of it. The word is a believers Compass,