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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.
There are two sorts of intemperance that we should beware of; either with respect to the Quantity, or to the Quality of what we eat. We offend in the first when we eat more than we can digest. In the other, when a man gives himself to eat that which the Physician tells him is not fit for him. And what a shame is this that neither reason nor grace, should keep a person from breaking out into intemperance.
There are two sorts of intemperance that we should beware of; either with respect to the Quantity, or to the Quallity of what we eat. We offend in the first when we eat more than we can digest. In the other, when a man gives himself to eat that which the Physitian tels him is not fit for him. And what a shame is this that neither reason nor grace, should keep a person from breaking out into intemperance.
Fourthly, Did I not mock with God when I pretended to crave a blessing and return thanks? If I may judge by my own experience, I think that we are more formal in this than in any other thing. Well let this be amended by us, It is a sad thing that we should mock God when we pretend to serve him.
Sixthly, For your callings. Four questions here.