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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.
How can you carry your selves Religiously in your Relations, unless you do conscientiously observe the Rules that you are to carry your selves by? If wives do not know their Rules, and husbands their Rules, and servants their Rules, and children their Rules, how can you bring your profession to any thing? beloved as ever you would make any thing of Religion, know the Rules of your places, set it down with your selves, you husbands, you wives, you children, you servants; these be the Rules that I will walk by, and wherein I sail of these Rules I will see my error, and study to come up to what is lacking.
How can you carry your selves Religiously in your Relations, unless you doe conscienciously observe the Rules that you are to carry your selves by? If wives do not know their Rules, and husbands their Rules, and servants their Rules, and children their Rules, how can you bring your profession to any thing? beloved as ever you would make any thing of Religion, know the Rules of your places, set it down with your selves, you husbands, you wives, you children, you servants; these be the Rules that I will walk by, and wherein I sail of these Rules I will seé my errour, and study to come up to what is lacking.
Resp. 2. You must have the whole lump of the heart leavened and seasoned with Religion, Matth. 13. 33. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven which a woman hid, &c. The word is this leaven, The heart is this lump in which this leaven is hid: now ⟨p. 265⟩when the whole lump is throughly seasoned, then their will be such a suitableness between the heart and the work, that Religion will become a pleasure. A true Christian hath the law of the Spirit of Life within him, he hath a transcript of the word in his soul. Now where the law of Religion is in the heart, there will be a love of, delight in, and propensity to the work of Religion, Rom. 8. 2.