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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.
What great account God hath of him, will appear (1) In what he hath laid out upon him. (2) In what he hath laid up for him. (3) By the near union he hath taken him into, with himself. (4.) By his near relation to him. (5) By his entertaining such familiar communion with man.
First. If you consider what God hath laid out upon him. The care, and the cost.
1. The care. Ah brethren, this is strange grace, that the infinite God should lay out his care, his thoughts upon such a thing as man is, yet thus he doth, 1 Pet. 5. 7. For he careth for you. Now this will appear worthy of your admiration, if you consider what this care is. 'Tis a Paternal care, a Personal care, a Perpetual care.
1. It is a Paternal care. A Fatherly care. As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. So Mal. 3. 17