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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 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.
2. A change in his State. When he comes to his father, you shall see what an Alteration it made in his Father.
(1) From Nakedness to Clothing, ver. 22. But the father said to his servants, bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. He was now new clothed from top to toe: yea, not only ⟨p. 299⟩for necessity, but for ornament, a ring on his hand. O what a change was here! from Rags to Robes. And no other but the best Robes. (2) From Penury, to Plenty. Bring hither the fatted calf. Alas! the poor starveling would have been glad but a little before, to have eat of the husks that he fed the swine with, but he could not have them. But now the fatted calf must be fetched out and killed for him. (3) From being lost, to be found. He was lost, and is found. (4) From being dead, to be alive again.