A26694:98
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 words foregoing my Text are called the Song of Moses, what is storied of the Swan is made good in the Saints; they sing sweetest when they are about to die. It is said of Christ, that never man spake like to him, and he never spake more like himself than a little before his passion. What tender words, what yearning, melting bowels, what endearedness of affection doth he express to his poor sorrowful Disciples in the 15, 16, 17. Chapters of John? There is (saith One of the Ancients) more worth in these three Chapters than in all the Books in the world. Moses, that famous servant of God, Israels guide, Prophet, Governor, Father, Husband, being about to take his leave of that perverse, stiff-necked people, begins to sing of Mercy and Judgment. And he sings sweetly in the ears of God, but dolefully, I doubt in the ears of Israel. Having ended his Song, he doth enforce both it and the Counsels given in the […] ⟨p. 30⟩[…] ⟨p. 31⟩[…] ⟨p. 32⟩[…] ⟨p. 29⟩⟨p. 30⟩foregoing Chapter with this vehement exhortation in the words of my Text. Set your hearts &c.
THe words foregoing my Text are called the Song of Moses, what is storied of the Swan is made good in the Saints; they sing sweetest when they are about to die. It is said of Christ, that never man spake like to him, and he never spake more like himself than a little before his passion. What tender words, what yearning, melting bowels, what endearedness of affection doth he express to his poor sorrowfull Disciples in the 15, 16, 17. Chapters of John? There is (saith One of the Ancients) more worth in these three Chapters than in all the Books in the world. Moses, that famous servant of God, Israels guide, Prophet, Governour, Father, Husband, being about to take his leave of that perverse, stiff-necked people, begins to sing of Mercy and Judgment. And he sings sweetly in the ears of God, but dolefully, I doubt in the ears of Israel. Having ended his Song, he doth enforce both it and the Counsels given in the 〈…〉