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A26694	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 ...; Selections. 1674	Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.; R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1674 (1674)	Wing A976; ESTC R22421	168,509	338

and yet he loved us and washed us when he was fain to stop his breath as it were and hold his nostrils yet he would come and wash us yea he would make a bath of his own blood Christ commended Mary that she washed his feet with her tears but how is the love of Christ commended in that he hath washed us in his blood Christ hath our names down upon his book Rev. 21. 27. There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that desileth c. But they that are written in the book of life Mark Christ keeps his book for you lest you should be forgotten or there should be any mistake It is a metaphor taken from men that keep their books because they will not let any thing be mistaken or forgotten Yea but books may be mislaid therefore Christ hath your names written on his breast The High preist was to have the names of the twelve Tribes upon his breast So doth Christ he hath you for remembrance sake engraven upon his hands Isaiah 4. 9. 15. Can a woman sorget her sucking child c. She may forget but I have engraven thee upon my hands yea he hath you upon his heart He challengeth all the world for his love to you He tels you that a woman may forget her child but he will not forget you A woman cannot chuse but have a very tender respect for her child for this child saith she have I born many a bitter throw and pain now for you did Christ travail Isaiah 53. 11. And so the Apostle Peter speaking of the Resurrection of Christ Acts 2. he tels us that he being freed from the pains of death it being impossible he should be holden of them The word in the Greek signifies birth-pains Believers they did as it were come forth of the womb of his love There is the very picture of a believer upon the heart of Christ. So that he cannot look upon his hands or his heart but he must be put in mind of us so dear was was his love to us What characters of love be ther that cannot be found in Christ Love covereth a multitude of faults And O how may this be seen in Christ we have may sins and yet Christ passeth by them all Thou art all fair there is no spot in thee Cant. 4. 7. Again Love is strong as death And so it was in Christ his love was stronger than death he under went death it self for us He was not afraid to passe under the pangs of death that he might redeem us Again love fils the heart with love to the person beloved what a dear respect hath Christ for his spouse every thing of theirs is sweet to him Come my Love that art in the clefts of the Rock in the secrets places of the stairs let me see thy Countenance let me hear thy voyce for sweet is thy voyce and thy countenance is comely Cant. 2. 14. The Church says she is black but Christ says she is comely But more particularly I shall shew you some evidences of the greatness of Christ's love His letters are letters of Love His lips they are lips of Love His Tokens are the tokens of Love His Test●…ment is the evidence of Love His Blood is a stream of Love 1. His letters are the letters of Love the Gospel is the book sent down from heaven wherein every chapter is a letter of love Thou art ready to faint sometimes Christian and unbelief is ready to prevail here thou mayst read the promises under Christs own hand sent down srom heaven to thee Here thou mayst read how love did care sor thee when thou wast in thy blood he said Live Here thou mayst read what expressions of love there was between Christ and thee when he was wooing of thee here are the letters of his love Here thou mayst read those loving melting passages of his whereby he woo●…d thee and prevailed with thee Here he shews though he be absent for a while yet he will come again Here he hath set the time and the day when thou shalt be marryed to him even when the body of Christ is compleat O how canst thou hear these letters of love and not be in love with Christ again Secondly His lips are lips of love the kisses of his mouth are sweeter than wine the words of his mouth are better than life His lips drop as the Honey-comb Never man spake like this man all that heard him bare him witnesse and wondred at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth Well did Mary chuse to sit at the seet of Christ rather than at the feast she found more sweet in the Honey-comb of Christs lips than at the feast Let us but look over the last sermon of Christ and the last prayer of Christ and how may this set us a loving of Christ. Look over his last sermon John 14. 15 and 16. chapters how lovingly doth he dispute down the unbelieving fears of our hearts Let not your heart be troubled And he propounds loving arguments though he be gone he will send us the comforter and he will not be long from us neither and then we shall be in no worse a case or place than he himself And in the mean time his going from us is out of love to us not because he wanted love for us but because he went to prepare a place for us Look into his last prayer and how lovingly doth he carry us in his arms to his Father when he was going out of the world begging his Fathat he would sancti●…ie us and keep us from the evil of the world and that he would at length bring us to enjoy his glory Thirdly His tokens are tokens of love As a woman will be often looking over her tokens because in these she sees the heart of her beloved so if you would be in love with Christ be often looking over the love-tokens of Christ. Thou canst not turn thy eye but thou must see his tokens But there are three or four tokens especially that you should be looking into First He hath sent thee a pardon for thy sins O what a blessed token is this Psa. 32. 1 2. Blessed is the man whose sin is for given c. He is blessed and blessed again over and over blessed he is a thrice happy man that hath got his pardon why this is the token that Christ hath sent thee that art a believer O look after thy pardon and thou shalt find that thy pardon is written in the blood of Christ for it was his blood that made satisfaction He loved thee and therefore washed thee from thy sins in his blood O with what joy and sweetness shouldest thou look over thy pardon Christian it is that which must carry thee through all thy dissiculties Doth the Devil assault thee do but shew thy pardon and this will worst him Doth the Lord frown upon thee shew him thy pardon this will silence him Doth thy

other beside Christ Act. 4. 12. Heaven nor earth could not find out a way to deliver man till God found out a way And because heaven and earth could not find out a way God and man must come together and as he was God he must satisfie and as he was man he must suffer and so we must come out He found us stinking in our grave as he did Lazarus The stinking carrion doth not stink more than we did when Christ found us Secondly If you consider what a great salvation he hath wrought for us This will appear if you consider from what he hath saved us and how he hath saved us First From what he hath saved us First From the Roaring-Lion Secondly From our raging-lusts Thirdly From the ●…ming furnace Fourthly From the King of terrors First From the roaring Lion So is our adversary the Devil called 1 Pet. 5. 8. This is he that Christ hath delivered us from We were all in the Paw of this lion and Christ came and delivered us from him This is the D●…vid that slew the lion and the bear and saved us when we were like to be destroyed When Satan did think to triumph over Christ then did Christ triumph over him Col. 2. 15. All the powers of hell did combine together and labored to give Christ the overthrow they had brought him to the cross and there triumph over him and thought that then they had done all and yet then did he overthrow them Oh! what a mercy is this to be delivered not onely from the bondage of Egypt but from the spiritual Egypt Col. 1. 13. Who hath deliveed us from the power of darkness c. My Brethren we were fast shut up in prison in the prison of which Satan was the Jaylor and there was no possibility of getting loose from him We were laid up as slaves under him and were led captive by him at his will Now what praise do we owe to him that hath delivered us from such a Tyrant as this this is our deliverance Act. 26. 18. to be turned from the power of Satan unto God This hath Christ done for us he hath delivered us from the power of Satan We were once in his family and did his work Eph. 2. 2 3. Eph. 6. 12. They are called the rulers of the darkness of this world That is poor ignorant souls that were lying in our ignorance And that not some of us onely but all of us Secondly From our raging lusts As from the slavery of Satan so from the dominion of sin Rom. 6. 14. By Christ we are freed from the dominion of sin My brethren Christ doth not onely free us from the damnation but from the dominion of sin To be the servant of sin is a most miserable slavery What a mercy is it to be delivered from a master whose work is drudgery and whose wages is destruction such a one is Satan Would it not have pittied us to have seen the poor man in the Gospel going up and down among the tombs and doing nothing but cutting and wounding himself such a one is every unsanctified person they go up and down wounding of themselves And though they feel not their wounds that sin gives them yet there is a day coming when conscience being awakened they will seel it Do you know my brethren what the work is that sin sets us upon it is to destroy our selves John 8. the Jews they plead that they were free and what did our Savior tell them of making them sree Oh! but they were servants to their lusts which was the greatest slavery my brethren to be under the power of a mans lusts is a most perfect slavery Do but look upon a sinner that hath an enlightned conscience and see how he rends and tears and is in a worse condition than the most woofull galley-slave that is in the world And then he vows and covenants against his sin and then his sin eggs him on again and then to his conscience fals upon him Oh this is a sad condition now this Christ hath delivered us from Sin will be in us but Christ hath promised that it shall not raign in us And this is the blessed deliverance he hath wrought in us and this he will perfect at the last day And by the way you may see and try whether you have any part in Christ or no. Why how may we know it are you delivered from your sins though sin be in you is it there against your consent if so you are they whom Christ dyed for But if it be in you in its dominion you have no part nor portion in this matter A man were better be the most perfect galley-slave in the world than to be under the power of sin Now this Christ hath delivered you from Thirdly From the slaming furnace This is another thing that Christ hath delivered you from If the furnace heated to shew the terribleness of Nebuchadnezzars rage was so hot that it burnt up those that cast in the three children how hot is the surnace of the Almighty God that is kindled by him great rivers of brimstone running out into it and the breath of the Lord doth kindle it Oh you know not what 't is to be damned you may know what 't is to be sick or the like but you know not what this word DAMNATION means 2 Thes. 1. 8 9. In 〈◊〉 fire taking vengeance on them that know not God c. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power When we see wicked men under the Terrors of conscience how do they wish for death that they might know what their torment is as Spira and William Rogers Oh can you tell what this terrible furnace is this is that which Christ hath delivered us from When I consider what this gul●… is I c●…not but wonder at my own and others stupidity that we are not ever ever praising the Lord if the terror of the Lord be so great that when he doth let out but a drop of it upon a poor creature how terrible is all that wrath the treasure of that wrath that is laid up for the ungodly Rom. 2. 5. 8. 9. Jam. 5. 3. Those wicked rich men there they had as they thought heaped up treasures of riches by oppressing the poor but the Apostle tels them they heaped up treasures of wrath And this we were all born to had not Christ cut off the entail O man woman canst think of burning for ever in the fire of the Lords wrath and not be praising the Lord that thou art yet out of hell O bless the Lord that delivered thee from so great a death and hath endured such torments that thou mayst be set free He did bear the rod of Gods wrath that thou mayst be saved to all eternity If Christ had not been where had we been as the Son of God coming among the three children saved them from

the duty that I would perswade you to now behold your King and look that you bow to him Let your souls and all that is within you bow to him Let your understandings bow to him by a right apprehension of him by a right conceiving of him as worthy to be loved and feared Let your wills bow by an utter rejection of your sins and a most ardent desire to receive Christ. Let all your affections come in and bow and not dare to stir more than his commands give you leave In a word let all that is within you bow before him and give place to Jesus Christ. Now down with the world out with your lusts and make ready for Christ. Let all your worldly business bow before him and give place to Jesus Christ away with this foolish deceitful world let all be at the seet of Christ and let all your souls be in subjection to him This will be an acceptable meeting with him if you so meet him A SACRAMENTAL Speech grounded on Isaiah 9. 6. And his name shall be called wonderful Quest. WHy is it that Christ hath given to him this name of wonderful Answ. There are so many wonders that meet together in Christ that t is no wonder at all that he should have this name wonderful Christ was every way wonderful He was wonderful in his Person wonderful in his Passion Wonderful in his Conception being conceived by the power of the holy Ghost wonderful in his Birth being born of a pure virgin wonderful in his Life wonderful in his death and the effects of it wonderful in his Resurrection that a dead person should be raised and that by his own power wonderful in his Ascension In a word he was every way wonderful wonderful in his Humiliation and Exaltation Ah Christians if you would see a wonder look upon Christ and here see a wonder here is a wonder above all that the world can shew There are two sorts of wonders that God hath to shew the wonder of his power and the wonder of his grace First The wonder of his Power What a wonder is it to see such a fabrick as heaven and earth all come out of nothing by the power of God Christians 't is a great evil in us that we do no more wonder at this great power What a wonder is the Sun in its bigness and brightness flying many Millions of miles in a minute of an hour Secondly But all these wonders are nothing to what his wonder of grace is In Christ you may see all these wonders swallowed up Let me shew you a little of this wonder In Christ are to be seen these following wonders 1. God manifest in the slesh 2 God suffering in the slesh 3. Justice and mercy sweetly r●…conciled 4. The greatest good coming out of the womb of the greatest evil 5. Perfect justice raging against perfect innocence 6 Infinite wisdome at cost upon me●…r worthlessness 7. The Son of the blessing made to be a curse 8. The Father of mercy forgetting his bowels to his own Son ●…irst God manifest in the flesh John 1. 14. And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory c. O brethren this is a wonder indeed The Apostle tells you that without controversie this is a great Mystery that God should be manifest in the flesh Here we may cry out deservedly with wonder and astonishment God is come down to us in the likeness of man God manifest in the flesh why what is flesh all flesh is grass that is fading withering dying What! the word made flesh shall the immortal put on mortality and incorruption put on corruption O what a wonder is this O behold and wonder see if Christ do not deserve the name of wonderful Holy Abraham was ashamed of his meaness in this respect when he came before God because he was but dust and ashes Behold I have taken upon me to speak to the great God who am but dust and ashes O then how is it to see God clothed with the flesh of man This was the wonder of angels O how did they wonder to see their maker clothed with flesh O come to the cross of Christ to the cratch of Christ and there bow and worship Let not the Humble abasure of Christ hinder you from adoring him in his greatness The wisemen found Christ in poverty meanness yet they knew what glory was vailed under this meannesse and fell down and offered gold frankincense myrrhe c. go ye and doe likewise Secondly God suffering in the flesh well may he have his name wonderful upon this account 't is said that the Philosopher observing the unnatural cclipse of the Sun at the suffering of Christ cryed out either the God of nature is suffering or the world is at an end When Christ was suffering it was God that suffered though he did not suffer in the Godhead but in the Manhood Beloved if you should have seen the judgement that befel Korah Dathan and Abiram would you not have been astonished at such a sight as this was much more if hell should have opened and you have seen the torments of the damned would you not have been astonished and wonder at this but in this that God should suffer is more then if all the men in the world should have suffered to all eternity O how did the angels stand by the Crosse wondering to see him whom they adored and worshipped to be mocked and Crucified Thirdly Justice and mercy sweetly reconciled The Justice and mercy of God seemed to be as it were at a controversie about fallen man Darius you know had made a decree that he that did offer any petition to any God or man except to himself within such a time should be cast into the den of Lions Daniel comes within the danger of this decree and what must be done now either Daniel must be spared and then what would become of the Laws of the Medes and Persians or else Daniel must be devoured and then the King would have been cruel to himself Yet providence did so order it that the Law was executed and Daniel spared So here man had sinned and God said that he should dye and now either man must dye or God must be false of his word Now what shall be done The wisdome of God steps in and finds out a person that should dye and so Gods truth be saved and his mercy magnified But where shall this person be found the Angels could not do it nor man could not do it But God would take the humane nature upon him and that should suffer that God and man might be reconciled Mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other Mercy and truth are met together how can this be it seems they were at a great distance could not be brought together Truth said that man should dye mercy said that man should be saved Truth said if he dye