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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.
1. His Creatures upon us. That he should lay out all these Creatures upon us, These Heavens, and this Earth to be for the comfort of man, Oh how doth this discover Gods goodness to man! This made David admire him, Psal. 8. 5, 6, 7, 8. Here you may see what an account God doth make of man, in that he should make him a little god among the Creatures; that their sheaf should bow to his sheaf; that they must spend and be spent for man: yea, the invisible Creatures, the Angels, they must be ministering spirits, for them who are the heirs of Salvation, Heb. 1. ult.
1. His Creatures upon us. That he should lay out all these Creatures upon us, These Heavens, and this Earth to be for the comfort of man, Oh how doth this discover Gods goodness to man! This made David admire him, Psal. 8. 5, 6, 7, 8. Here you may see what an account God doth make of man, in that he should make him a little god among the Creatures; that their sheaf should bow to his sheaf; that they must spend and be spent for man: yea, the invisible Creatures, the Angels, they must be ministring spirits, for them who are the heirs of Salvation, Heb. 1. ult.
2. In that he hath laid out his Christ upon us. This was a costly gift indeed. It is much that God should give his Creatures to dye for us, to give us food: but oh that he should give us his Christ to dye for us, Oh how incredibly hath the Lord advanced man in this! In this he hath abundantly showed how man was esteemed by him. This shows that he had a great regard to us. We were redeemed by the blood of Christ, which was the blood of God himself, Act. 20. 28. Now is it not an admirable thing, that so mean a purchase should be made with so great a price? This was that which God did commend his strange love with, (