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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) 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.
(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 onely ⟨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. Alass! 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.
There are four Observations that I shall commend to you from the words.
1. Observ. That a Sinner in his Natural condition, is not only diseased, but dead: not only strayed, but lost.