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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 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.
(2) It is such a change, as from being lost to be found. A sinner, in his Natural state is a lost man, in a lost condition: but when he is recovered by conversion he is found again. The Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost. And so in this Luke 15. What was this lost sheep, and lost groat, and lost Son? What was the meaning of all this, but the recovering of lost Souls? So that its a great change, a coming from death to life; from being lost to be found. If our gospel be hid, 'tis hid to ⟨p. 301⟩those that are lost: (that is, for the present they are lost,) but when they are converted, then, of lost they are found.
Use. Is it so blessed and glorious a change, that God doth work in the condition of a believer, when he bringeth him to himself; no less than from being dead to be alive, from being lost to be found? Then you that are believers rejoice in, and be thankful for that blessed and happy condition that God hath translated you into. Ah brethren, how may you look one upon another, and consider what God hath done for you?