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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.
2. In his word. What glorious descriptions do we find made of him in the Scriptures? Psal. 104. 1. O Lord thou art very great, &c. Job. 25. 4, 5, 6. Man, in comparison of God, is but a worm, a vile worm, as the word signifies; such a thing is man. A worm that is bred in flesh, which is the wor•t of all. Now is it not a wonder of all wonders that God should look upon such a one as man? That God that humbles himself to behold the things that are done in heaven, that this great God should look upon us? or take any pleasure or delight in us? O how should we admire this Grace!
2. In his word. What glorious descriptions doe we find made of him in the Scriptures? Psal. 104. 1. O Lord thou art very great, &c. Iob. 25. 4, 5, 6. Man, in comparison of God, is but a worm, a vile worm, as the word signifies; such a thing is man. A worm that is bred in flesh, which is the wor•t of all. Now is it not a wonder of all wonders that God should look upon such a one as man? That God that humbles himself to behold the things that are done in heaven, that this great God should look upon us? or take any pleasure or delight in us? O how should we admire this Grace!
Secondly. If you consider what man is. What a Vain, what a Vile thing he is.
1. What a vain thing he is. His vanity appears,