A26694:631
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. As a Father. So he is nearly related to us. This is an astonishing consideration, 1 Joh. 3. 1. O what a wonder is this, that he should take such a thing as man, so near to himself as to make him become his son! That he should take him from the dunghill of sin, From the dungeon of darkness, The family of Satan, The furnace of hell.
2. As a Father. So he is nearly related to us. This is an astonishing consideration, 1 Joh. 3. 1. O what a wonder is this, that he should take such a thing as man, so near to himself as to make him become his son! That he should take him from the dunghil of sin, From the dungeon of darkness, The family of Satan, The furnace of hell.
There be two dignities conferred upon man here. (1) He is taken into his family. (2) Admitted to sit at his Table.
There be two dignities confer'd upon man here. (1) He is taken into his family. (2) Admitted to sit at his Table.
(1) He is taken into his family, Ephes. 3. 15. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. Mark, the Lord is a great house-keeper, and all believers are his family. And though these be in different degrees and orders, some glorified in heaven, and some here on carth; yet we are all but one family; so that we are taken into the same family and household that the Saints in glory be in. And what a dignity is this!