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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. Man is a vile thing. If he were only empty of good, this were something; but now he is not only empty of all that is good, but he is full of all that is displeasing to God, Job 15. ver. 16. Man drinketh in iniquity like water. This is the condition of man, he drinketh in sin as the fish drinks in water: Sin is his proper Element. The filthy carcass lying before us is not more loathsome to us than we are to God in our sins. Man, before God in himself is like a carcass lying in its crawling worms. Now is it not strange that so vain, yea, so vile a thing as man ⟨p. 284⟩have any room in Gods heart? How should we cry out with the Psalmist here in the text, Lord what is man, &c.
2. Man is a vile thing. If he were onely empty of good, this were something; but now he is not onely empty of all that is good, but he is full of all that is displeasing to God, Job 15. ver. 16. Man drinketh in iniquity like water. This is the condition of man, he drinketh in sin as the fish drinks in water: Sin is his proper Element. The filthy carcase lying before us is not more loathsome to us than we are to God in our sins. Man, before God in himself is like a carcase lying in its crawling worms. Now is it not strange that so vain, yea, so vile a thing as man ⟨p. 284⟩have any room in Gods heart? How should we cry out with the Psamist here in the text, Lord what is man, &c.
Thirdly. This will appear by considering What great account this great God hath of this poor thing man.