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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

Where envying and strife is there is every evil work Oh blesse the Lord that the hearts of believers have been made one in this place Psal. 133. 1. How good and beautiful is it to see Brethren dwell together in unity blesse the Lord you his people because the Lord hath blessed his people with peace Fourthly In the plenty and variety of its provision Oh remember this this day and forget not how God hath provided for you all along and that at that day when you did account that all was cut off How little did we dream of such a mercy had any told us then of these things we should have replied as that Lord did behold if the Lord would make windows in heaven might this thing be Ah Brethren should it have been told you before-hand that for so many years after that fatal day you should spend so many Sabbaths in the worship of God and so many Sermons in one Sabbath and so many Ministers sent to you and so many Sacraments to feed you as you have had you would have been ready to say if the Lord should open windows in heaven could this thing be and yet all this God hath done for you Oh blesse the Lord for this mercy Fifthly In the strange preservation of your Liberty Herein hath God been singular in his mercy to you hath not Christ fulfilled his word to you he that loseth his life for my sake so he that loseth his liberty for my sake shall 〈◊〉 it you have hazarded your liberties and have ●…ept them Many have declined their duty to preserve their liberty but blessed be God that you have adventured your liberty and God hath kept you in safety Indeed I can give you no time of your liberty but I can assure you that if you lose it sor him you shall 〈◊〉 by your losse Methinks Christ says to us as to his disciples wh●… I s●…nt you sorth without shooes or scrip 〈◊〉 ye any thing and they said nothing so here when you have gone sorth adventuring your liberties for Christ have you lost them you 〈◊〉 say no. Sixthly I●… s●…rving you by your 〈◊〉 Counsel ●…ow visibly hath God turned what the enemy intended sor ●…vil to be good to us so we may say as Joseph to his Br●…thren as for you you th●…ght ●…vil to me but God meant it for good You know how they have despightfully removed the Magistracy of the place but behold how much the Lord hath turned it for your good had they set up a Magistracy it had been the losse of your liberty They had a spightful eye upon you and it was thought that 〈◊〉 long agone would have been too hot for her inhabitants yet behold what freedome and liberty we have lived in behold men curse but God hath blessed us the more Oh how strange a thing is this that you should eat and drink in peace and go forth and come in in peace that you should attend the ordinances in peace Seventhly In eminent and gracious returns to your prayers Brethren this is not to be forgotten this day Returns of prayer do certainly call for great returns of praise It hath been observed by those that have bin longer with you than I that they never remember that God was earnestly sought unto sor any particular mercy in this place but he did s●…d a visible return except once when if God had sent you an answer according to your prayer it had been the hazzarding of the people of God in this place So that I may say to you what people is like to you who have God so near unto you in all that you have 〈◊〉 upon him sor Eighthly In keeping you ●…om the ●…astical Courts This is a mercy that we should be mindful os Indeed all along the Churchmalignant have been one os the persecuting enemies of the Church o●… God Witness the Scribes and Pharises Witness the 〈◊〉 who were all a long the stirrers up os men against the Church And so in divers 〈◊〉 men of late Nay and at this day through the rigour of these Courts especially in óther Counties many stand excommunicated many are threatned with Writs and some taken and cast into prison for term life unless God raise som unexpected means Now of all places one would have thought that we should have been dragged to prison by them And yet you see how God hath preserved us Ninthly In your glorious Salvations and d●…liverances Oh my Brethren remember and forget not the dealings of God with this place Let God hear of it throughout your praises now ●…his day what he hath done for you in saving youwith such wonderful Salvation The Sword and Famine and Plague and Fire have been upon you to consume you and yet you are here to blesse the Lord at this day methinks the Lord cals upon you as in Micah 6. 5. O my people remember now what Balaak King of Moab consulted and what Balaam the Son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal that you might know the rightcousness of the Lord. Such is the Language of the Lord to you Remember now what thine enemies consulted against thee howthey had gathered themselves against thee and besieged thee and did resolve to devour thee with thy children and not to leave thee one stone upon another O remember my people when your houses were on fire and the Plague in the street and the widdows crying and the children fatherless crying Ah! pittiful condition O remember now how I have helped thee that thou mightest know that I am the Lord thy Savior Thirdly If we come yet nearer and look upon our selves with reference to our particular persons as we are Christians and so God hath done more for us than he hath don for any others beside therefore praise you the Lord. And here I am in such a field that I know not the way out you are the members of Christ the children of your father which is in heaven what hath God done for you O you that fear the Lord praise the Lord. You may stand amazed to see what the Lord hath wrought ●…or your souls This is the Life of all when you can remember the everlasting loving kindnesse of God to you O friends consider now you that are the Lords peculiar people consider what God hath done for you above all other people Consider he hath made you the people of his choice The pillars of his name The vessels of his glory The Temples of his presence The Trumpets of his praise The men of his Counsel The Jewels of his Crown The Inheritors of his Kingdom Herein God hath done more for you then for others and should not you do more than others look upon these things and see then whether you should not do more for God than others First You are the people of his choice when others are but the refuge You are the pillars of his name when others are but broken and uselesse pot-sheards You are the

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 All tending to promote Real Piety LONDON Printed for Peter Parker at the Leg and Star in Cornhil over against the Royal-Exchange 1674. 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 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 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 lookt into it that I Judge it to be singularly useful for the engaging thee in and directing and quickning thee to that even spiritual active life which will be both thy beauty and thy comfort That the spirit of the living God which so eminently furnished the head fired the heart and filled up the life of this holy man may so animate these holy lines that they may become effectual to the forming their very Image upon thy soul and life is the prayer of Thy Friend in Christ Richard Alleine June 11th 1674. A Table of the several Treatises contain'd in this Book I. The Art of dying well Grounded on Luke 19. 20. with 15 several directions thereunto II. A discourse about self-Examination on Psal. 4. 4. pag. 1 III. A Sermon on Deuteronomy 32. 46. p. 29 IV. A serious call to Christians to win Souls to Christ with helps there unto on Proverb 11. 30 p. 47 V. A Sermon on Revel 3. 1. with ten parting Counsels p. 61 VI. A Sermon on Psal. 74. p. 83 VII A discourse made by Mr. Joseph Alleine unto his people at Taunton the night before his departure from them p. 99 VIII A Sermon preached in order to the Sacrament on a Sacramental day on Luke 2. 10 11. p. 119 IX A thanksgiving Sermon preached July 1665 at Mr. R. Ms on Psal. 147. 20 p. 137 X. A Sacramental Speech grounded on Psal. 40. 7. p. 167 XI Another Sacramental speech on Isa. 9. 6. p. 185 XII Another Sacramental speech on Eph. 3. 19. p. 195 XIII Another Sacramental speech on Eph. 5. 2. p. 201 XIV Another Sacramental speech on Mat. 15. 28. p. 215 XV. Another Sacramental speech on Mark 1. 15. p. 227 XVI Four several Letters to his most beloved people in Taunton p. 237 XVII A Practical Case on Phil. 3. 13. 14. p. 263 XVIII A discourse on Psal. 144. 3. p. 279 XIX Heavens joy and triumph on Luke 15. 23 24. p. 297 XX A Letter sent by him to an intimate friend p. 310 The Art of Dying well Luk. 12. 19 20. Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years But God said Thou fool this night shall thy soul be required of thee Qu. SInce no man hath one dayes certainty of his life what may we do to be secured from being surprised by death 1. Sit loose from the world that you may be able to packup ●…nd be gone upon sudden warning Here was the folly and misery of this rich man that he had set his heart upon the world his mind did run upon his Barns and upon his Belly his Goods were his Gods he wi●…hes no other felicity than to eat and be merry If you would be sit for your great Journey to your long home you must lay aside every weight and in special the incumbring and intangling and insnaring clog and burthen of worldly affections you must take heed to your selves least at any time your hearts be over-charged with surfetting and drunkenness and the cares of this life if you would not have that day come upon you unawares It is said there is a 〈◊〉 whose heart is in his Belly would there were no such Monsters among men Certainly that man whose heart is in his Belly or on his Cosfer that Idolizes his friends or his reputation is no more fit for the assaults of Death than the unhappy Trojans buryed in Sleep and Wine for the Invasion of the well-appointed Greeks or the secure Laish for the subtle Danites or the Shechamites when sore and unwieldy for the Sons of violence and Instruments of cruelty Study to be Crucifyed to the world to use all earthly comforts in a mortifyed manner as those that are taking their long leave and let Death find you dead besore-hand and then let it come when it will and do its worst 2. Intrench not on Gods Prerogative in carving out the future time Reckon not upon hereafter this was the unhappiness of this rich fool he counts upon many years God had given him much goods and now he is so bold as to cast upon many merry dayes to spend them but God is angry at his usur pation and since he would presume to be his own carver God rebukes his boldness and will shew his Prerogative and will cut him short enough this night shall thy soul be required Remember your times are in Gods hands improve with all possible diligence your present allowance he gives you wealth to lay up for hereafter but he keeps your time in his own hands so that you shall not know one day whether you shall ever have another or be allowed to live till the n●…xt cast not upon to morrow Live this day well When shall we learn to practice the received Lesson to live every day as if it were our last Blessed men that we should be if we would but live up to this short rule Christians why are our lives so far wide of our rules and principles Doth Conscience witness that you live up to this If the rule be good why do you not da●…ly study to consorm to it is it not a shame that a heathen should teach you think saith he every morning when thou risest I may never lye down again and every night thou lyest down it may be I may never rise again when thou goest out I may never return when thou comest in I may never more go out Christian let it be thy serious thought every morning I will spend this day for eternity 3. Store up in Heaven ●…pace and see that you be rich towards God It was the want

Idolatry of the land but God doth hear of it again by us before we sleep by Prayer This should be for a lamentation to us that the wounds that are given to God are no more upon our hearts We may say of the glory of God as they of David 2 Sam. 18. 3. 'T is worth ten thousand of us Our estates and names and all that is dear to us yea our very souls are not so much worth as the honour of God And how is it then that we can see God dishonoured and we cannot mourn sor it Gods glory is his Crown that is upon his head and shall we see his Crown trodden down in the dirt and not be affected with it we are far from the disposition of Gods Saints and servants heretofore When Moses saw the Idolatry of the people he was so zealous that he overturned the Tables that God wrote with his own finger And Ezra when the people had taken strange wives he sate down and 〈◊〉 his cloaths Ezr. 9. Bretheren how may we blush to hear and read this and to think how far our hearts are from this frame It may be you do think it enough that you did cry out upon it when you hear●… the Blasphemy so that you are free from 〈◊〉 your selves but this is your sin if you do no●… mourn over it 1 Cor. 5. 2. 7. No doubt the godly Corinthians did detest this sin but the Apostle tells them that is not enough whil●… they did not mourn over it When wic●…ness doth raign as if it were the time of 〈◊〉 Devils incarnation as if Hell it self were ●…ken loose upon us to Act its part 〈◊〉 ground and we not mourning ov●…r it Thirdly Do not I live in 〈◊〉 that I know or fear to be a Sin If I do thus there is no peace with God or Con●… to be h●… sor you Psal. 66. 18. If I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my heart God will not hear my Prayers It is a sign that God doth not regard thee if thou art one that dost live in the practice or allowance of any sin and he will not own thee for this Rom. 6. 16. If thou dost yield up thy self to any sin willingly that is a manifest sign that thou art none of Gods Thirdly For your hearts Ask several questions First Have I been much in holy ejaculation Thus we ought to Pray continually not onely at our set and solemn times but upon all occasions to step aside and speak a word or two with God in our Journeys and Occupations this is walking with God indeed when we do not onely take a turn or two with him in the morning and so in the evening but all the day long It is said of Mr. Dod that he never got up his Horse but he prayed before he came off Thus did Nehemiah while the King was talking with him he was praying to God Nehem. 2. 4. So I prayed to the God of Heaven this was a Heavenly ejaculation this would keep your hearts a praying all the day long When the hearts of men do naturally bend to God as the sparks fly upward this is a good thing indeed when we cannot go by the door but we must step in and have a turn with God you will take it as a great kindness for a man not onely to come on set times to visit you but when he comes in every time he comes by the door to see you And when thy heart is thus wont to turn into God this will be an 〈◊〉 to thee that thy heart is used to converse with God Secondly Hath not God been out of mind Heaven out of sight put that question to thy heart My Brethren this is our great sin and should be our great shame that the thoughts of God are such strangers to our souls that we are so little in heaven in the day as we are O what a loser is God by this in his glory what losers are we by this in our graces and comforts O were our hearts on all occasions thus thinking of God how holy a frame should we quickly grow into Why should not our hearts be as much with God as the hearts of the Worldlings be with the Creature Doth not God deserve it as much as the Creature His heart is always talking with the World If he come to hear his heart is talking with the world If he come to pray his heart is alway with the World Why should not our hearts be talking with God while our hands are employed about this world It was a Heavenly breathing of a gracious spirit a confounding passage that I met with Lord as formerly I lived without thee in the world so now let me 〈◊〉 without the world in thee If we did but love God as well as a worldly man doth love his wealth and riches we should be so taken up with the love of God as quite to forget the world For the world makes them forget God that he is not alwayes in their thoughts Yea says he we should be taken up always with God My Brethren what shall we say for this How shall we excuse this that we should be so unmindfull of God while the Worldling is so mindful of the world O what a shame is this For shame be ashamed at your selves before we go away hence I profess Christians I have wondred 〈◊〉 God will throw away his kingdome upon some that do care so little for it as we do O shame thy self out of this evil frame Brethren why do not we carry it towards the world as the world doth towards us The world doth carry it towards us as 〈◊〉 and we know not what it will do to us VVhy should not we carry it more strangely towards it O never leave till the thoughts of Heaven be thy natural thoughts O check thy heart ronndly in the Evening for this sin if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 find thy heart faulty here and never leave till thou ha●… brought it into a right frame Thirdly Have I been often looking into my 〈◊〉 made conscience even of vian thoughts you know your Rule Keep thy heart with all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it are the Issues of life Now hast thou been keeping thy heart with all diligence Brethren you may be sure your work will go but badly on unless you look to your hearts and keep your hearts Examine then in the Evening how hath my heart been employed to day hath it not been a thorow-fare of vain thoughts of evil imaginations I fear that many of us do make little con●… of this It may be thou dost make conscience of vain thoughts in duty but I fear that few 〈◊〉 do make conscience of vain thoughts at other times Ah Brethren you 〈◊〉 not known what it is to live the life of Christianity if you do not look to this This must be mended Brethren what a blessed thing would this be if we had but once attained this frame If our hearts did but naturally run