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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. In his Heart. That you have in the verses above. When he came to himself, he ⟨p. 298⟩said, how many hired servants of my fathers, have bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger? Here is a great change wrought upon his heart, he is now come to his senses again. An impenitent sinner is beside himself: none in the world is so distracted as he is. All the madness in the world is nothing to this. He that throws fire-brands at his head, is not in so bad a […] as he that throws fire-brands at God. Well, the man is now come to his senses: and what was the effect.
1. In his Heart. That you have in the verses above. When he came to himself, he ⟨p. 298⟩said, how mauy hired servants of my fathers, have bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger? Here is a great change wrought upon his heart, he is now come to his sens•s again. An impenitent finner is beside himself: none in the world is so distracted as he is. All the madness in the world is nothing to this. He that throws fire-brands at his head, is not in so bad a 〈…〉 as he that throws fire-brands at God. Well, the man is now come to his senses: and what was the effect.
(1) He was sensible of his misery, I perish with hunger. This is one of the first things that God doth for his people, when he brings them home, to make them sensible of their misery. (2) He was sensible of his sin too. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. Not only misery, but the sense of sin must be set home upon the heart of a poor sinner, or else the conversion will not be true. (3) You have his confession and conversion: His confession, Father I have Sinned. And his conversion, he returned home to his Father.
(1) He was sensible of his misery, I perish with hunger. This is one of the first things that God doth for his people, when he brings them home, to make them sensible of their misery. (2) He was sensible of his sin too. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. Not onely misery, but the sense of sin must be set home upon the heart of a poor sinner, or else the conversion will not be true. (3) You have his confession and conversion: His confession, Father I have Sinned. And his conversion, he returned home to his Father.