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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.
Oh let these thoughts live daily upon your hearts, fix it upon your selves that you are of no use nor worth in the world, except you serve your makers ends: that he is the Potter, and you the Clay; and that you are good for nothing, except you are for the use of him that formed you: think with your selves; Is it not pity so excellent a piece of Gods workmanship, as man is, should be all in vain? That God should lay out so much of his power and wisdom, and grace upon thee, and ⟨p. 267⟩loose his end at last? That he should furnish Man completely for the end he was made for, and send him into the world to dispatch his business, and Man should forget his errand, and neglect the very end of his being?
Oh let these thoughts live dayly upon your hearts, fix it upon your selves that you are of no use nor worth in the world, except you serve your makers ends: that he is the Potter, and you the Clay; and that you are good for nothing, except you are for the use of him that formed you: think with your selves; Is it not pitty so excellent a peice of Gods workmanship, as man is, should be all in vain? That God should lay out so much of his power and wisdom, and grace upon thee, and ⟨p. 267⟩loose his end at last? That he should furnish Man compleatly for the end he was made for, and send him into the world to dispatch his business, and Man should forget his errand, and neglect the very end of his being?
Beloved, the reason why men do mind Religion no more, is because they do mistake their business. And is it not pity, that when Man only of all the visible Creatures hath an understanding to know his end, he only should mistake and miss his end?
Beloved, the reason why men do mind Religion no more, is beause they do mistake their business. And is it not pitty, that when Man only of all the vissible Creatures hath an understanding to know his end, he onely should mistake and miss his end?