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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.
The Epistle.
READER.
There needs no more to commend this Book (Remains of Mr. Joseph Alleine) to thee, but to assure thee that it is his own, and though a Posthumous, yet no spurious birth. Though some parcels come to thee with this disadvantage, only as they were taken from his mouth as he preached, yet much of it was written with his own hand. If thou hast tasted that divine and warm spirit, which run through his other Writings already published, it will sure set thee a thirsting after what else hath dropped from the same holy lips or hands. The labours of a man of God, so mighty in the Scriptures, and in the power of God, will not be either unuseful, or unacceptable: though what thou hast here, be but fragments, yet thou wilt find them to be of the same bread, with those loves which have been already dealt out to thee, by the ⟨image 4⟩same hand The Publisher hath gathered up these fragments, it being pity they should be lost. For my part, I have not had the time to read through the whole Book since it came to my hands, but have so far looked into it, that I Judge it to be singularly useful, for the engaging thee in, and directing and quickening thee to that even, spiritual, active life, which will be both thy beauty and thy comfort.
THere needs no more to commend this Book (Remains of Mr. Joseph Alleine) to thee, but to assure thee that it is his own, and though a Posthumous, yet no spurious birth. Though some parcels come to thee with this disadvantage, onely as they were taken from his mouth as he preached, yet much of it was written with his own hand. If thou hast tasted that divine and warm spirit, which run through his other Writings already published, it will sure set thee a thirsting after what els hath drop'd from the same holy lips or hands. The labours of a man of God, so mighty in the Sriptures, and in the power of God, will not be either unuseful, or unacceptable: though what thou hast here, be but fragments, yet thou wilt find them to be of the same bread, with those loves which have been already dealt out to thee, by the