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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) 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! Ephes. 2. 19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the Saints, and of the household of God. We that were sometimes strangers, are now by our Adoption become of Gods household. You may think they shall not want good keeping, 1 Tim. 5. 8. He that provides not for those of his own house, is worse than an infidel. God ⟨p. 293⟩will be sure to provide for those that be of his own house. Now we that are his children, shall thus be provided for. O how doth David commend their state that shall be admitted to dwell in Gods house? He prefers it above all the honour of Princes dignity, Psal. 84. This is our privilege. We are in Gods house, of his family. If the Queen of Sheba did think the servants of Solomon blessed, how much more blessed are they that are the servants of Jesus Christ? Happy (said she) are those thy servants, &c. but how much more may this be said of Gods children.
(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 houshold that the Saints in glory be in. And what a dignity is this! Ephes. 2. 19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the Saints, and of the houshold of God. We that were sometimes strangers, are now by our Adoption become of Gods houshold. You may think they shall not want good keeping,