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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
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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.
Secondly. It appears what great account this great God hath of this poor thing, Man, in what he hath laid up for him. This makes the Psalmist to cry out as one overcome with admiration, Psal. 31. 19. O How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! It is much that God hath laid out for us, but more that he hath laid up •or us. The Psalmist could not express it, he could but […] it only, 1 Cor. 2. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor […] heard, neither have entered into the h•rt of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Eye hath no• seen. The eye of man hath seen much; especially those that have travailed in other ⟨p. 289⟩Countries. But the eye of man hath not seen any thing that may be compared with this that God hath prepared. Nor ear heard. We have heard o• more than we have seen; We have heard of gold Mines and the like, that are in other parts o• the world; but the ear hath not heard of any thing like this. And though the eye hath seen much, and the ear hath heard more; yet the heart of man can conceive of more again; yet the heart of man cannot conceive of what God hath laid up for them that love him.
Secondly. It appears what great account this great God hath of this poor thing, Man, in what he hath laid up for him. This makes the Psalmist to cry out as one overcome with admiration, Psal. 31. 19. O How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! It is much that God hath laid out for us, but more that he hath laid up •or us. The Psalmist could not express it, he could but 〈…〉 it onely, 1 Cor. 2. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor 〈…〉 heard, neither have entred into the hrt of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Eye hath no seen. The eye of man hath seen much; especially those that have travailed in other