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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.
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, Job 8. 9. We are but of yesterday and know nothing, yet notwithstanding, though we are not able to comprehend, much less to express the greatness of God; yet some thing we may see, and accordingly should conceive of it, and should labour to set it out to others.