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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.
Hence observe.
Doct. That it is a wonder above all wonders, that ever the great God should make such account of such a thing as man.
This I shall open to you in these three generals.
1. It will appear if you consider what a great God the Lord is. 2. What a poor thing Man is. 3. What a great account the great God hath of this poor thing Man.
First, If you consider what a great God the Lord is. And here I may be confounded, to think that I can speak no more of his greatness. When I am studying to speak to you ⟨p. 280⟩of his greatness, that comes to my mind, canst thou by searching find out God? Alas, we may all complain as Jobs friends did,