A26694:649
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
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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.
4. Obs. That it is matter of Heavens joy and triumph, when poor dead Sinners are revived; and lost Sinners are recovered. Bring hither the f•ted calf, &c. and why so? This my son was dead and is alive again; was lost, and is found.
4. Obs. That it is mateer of Heavens joy and triumph, when poor dead Sinners are revived; and lost Sinners are recovered. Bring hither the f•ted calf, &c. and why so? This my son was dead and is alive again; was lost, and is found.
It is the third of these Observations that I intend to insist upon. That it is a most blessed and glorious change that God doth work in the state of a believer, &c. I shall open this in its several parts. It is a great change that God doth work.
(1) From being dead to be alive. Regeneration is not such a change as doth consist in performing such a duty, or leaving such a sin that thou couldst not well live in. It is pitiful to think, how many take the leaving of one sin to be the new birth; No, it is no less than from being dead to be alive again.
(1) From being dead to be alive. Regeneration is not such a change as doth consist in performing such a duty, or leaving such a sin that thou could'st not well live in. It is pittiful to think, how many take the leaving of one sin to be the new birth; No, it is no less than from being dead to be alive again.