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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

c. Ah brethren this is good news for Zion and this is the news God hath sent me with behold the deliverer the Saviour is come O with what a welcome should such as this be received when he comes how welcome was the news to the captives that brought the news of their liberty why such should be the welcome that you should give to the news the Gospel brings you of a deliverer Now is your Jubilee blessed are the people that hear the joyful sound Psa. 89. 15. He alludes to the sound of the Trumpets in the time of the Jubilee but it is to be understood of the joyful sound of the Gospel It is blessed news that Christ the deliver is come Secondly I am to shew you how he is come There is a two fold coming of Christ his gracious and his glorious coming His glorious coming is not till hereafter at the last day This is the coming that he speaks of Rev. 1. 7. He speaks of it as if it were present because 't is as certain as if it were present Every eye shall see him But then there is his gracious coming and that is two fold corporal or spiritual His corporal coming in his admirable Incarnation his spiritual coming in the Gospel Invitation First His corporal coming in his admirable incarnation And this is blessed news to the world at this his coming there were a quire of angels to celebrate his praise Luke 2. 13 14. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God saying glory to Godin the highest and on Earth peace good will towards men We read that the great and glorious works of God they are celebrated by the angels And there are these four great works celebrated by them First The work of Creation So that 〈◊〉 Job 38. 7. When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for Joy It is spoken with reference to the Creation the angels did list up their voices and sang the praise of their Creator Secondly The work of conversion Luke 15. 10. There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth The work of conversion is a great and admirable work and therefore celebrated by angels Thirdly At Christs incarnation so Luke 2. 10 11. Fourthly At the resurrection Then all the angels of God shall appear then shall be a most glorious and general appearance of the angels to celebrate that work heaven shall empty it self of all its glorious inhabitants Secondly There is the spiritual coming of Christ and this is in his Ordinances This is his Chariot wherein he rides on conquering Psa. 45. 3 4. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh and in thy Majesty ride prosperously This is to be understood of Christs going forth in the sound of the Gospel which is his sword whereby he rides on to conquer the world Now in this respect Christ is come exhibiting himself in the voice of the Gospel there Christ doth shew himself and impart himself to his people Thirdly I am to shew you whence he is come He is come from the throne of his glory From the court of his Angels From the hosome of his Father First From the Throne of his glory O what a wonderful descent was this that he should come from the Throne of his glory to the manger among the beasts from the company of the angels to be crucified among the theeves he came among the beasts the world would not receive him but he was thrust out among the beasts Man by his Apostacy had brought himself among the beasts and hither did Christ come to find him But he was humbled more yet from the throne to the cross From the height of his glory to the extremity of shame O how should we think of the strange abasure of Christ that he that was heir to the Crown of glory should become man and viler then any of the Sons of men in some respect this should have your great admiration Secondly From the Court of his angels The Lord Jesus Christ he was the brightness of his Fathers glory the express image of his person that made his angels spirits and his Ministers a flaming fire All the angels you must know were his Messengers And what abasure was here that he should come from the company of angels to be contemned by the basest of men Thirdly From the bosome of his Father The Lord Jesus Christ he was the Son of Gods delight his darling the beloved object of his soul Math. 11. 27. Christ is he that lyes in the bosome of the Father and he alone is able to reveal the secrets of the Lord to the world so John 1. 18. Now that the Lord Jesus Christ should come from the bosome of God to the belly of hell that he should leave the glory of heaven for the torments of hell and all for our sakes what a strange wonder of Love was this hence was it that Christ came for us This is the bread that came down from heaven that a man may eat of and not dye Fourthly I shall shew you why he is come And that is To seek and to Save First To seek That is one end of his coming so Luke 19. 10. And who do you think that he is come to seek It is us that were lost All we like sheep have gone astray now Christ is that great good sheapherd that came to seek and to save that which was lost in Luke 15 you read of the lost groat the lost sheep and the lost Son and who do you think this was this was the lost sinner ver 32. who was it think you that sought us and found us when we were lost It was Jesus Christ it was he that sought us We had never found him had not he sought us I am found of them that sought me not 〈◊〉 65. 1. If Christ had stayed for us till we sought him our salvation had never been wrought The Lord Jesus Christ he sought us not and laid hold on us He took not hold of angels but of the seed of Abraham In effectual calling there he takes hold of the sinner he is fain to run after them and stop them or else they would run into perdition Secondly He is come to save so the Apostle to Timothy 1 Tim. 15. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief He puts in for one Oh brethren this is that should make the coming of Christ welcome to you he came to seek and save you O therefore welcome him at his coming Use. Is it so that Christ is come then go you forth to meet him Math. 25. 6. That was the cry there this is that which God sends his Messengers to call upon you for that you may go forth to meet him But how should you go forth to meet him First as a Bride doth her

Conscience accuse thee shew it thy pardon and that will quiet it Secondly He hath sent thee a Patent for heaven this hath Christ given you that are believers he hath made over to you in his Gospel a sirm conveyance of heaven So that I may say a believer hath as true a right to heaven as Christ can make him yea as Christ hath himself You are they that have endured in my temptations and I appoint unto you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed me c. Now believers can you tell the worth of this token can you cast up the worth of endlesse glory can you tell what God and heaven is worth then you may tell me what this token is worth never was there such a token sent as this is Thirdly He hath sent thee the golden chain of the Jewels and bracelets of thy graces As when the servant of Abraham went to take Rebeckah for wife to Isaac he gave her bracelets c. So hath Christ to you he hath given you the chain of all the graces These are the Jewels he hath adorned you with Dost thou find any faith love c. in thee though it be like a grain of Mustard-seed and like a spark on the hearth O blesse the Lord Christ upon the bended knees of thy soul that he hath given thee this He hath done more for thee in this than he hath done for all the world beside O how thankful should you be that have received such a token from him Christian when ever thou dost feel the operation of the spirit of Christ within thee let this mind thee of the love of him that hath sent thee all this Fourthly He hath sent thee the seal and testimony of his spirit Hast thou received the spirit of adoption teaching thee to cry Abba Father It was he that sent it Hast thou so sure a guide as the sweet compassionate spirit so loving a Counseller as the spirit of Christ in thee O take notice of the love of Christs in sending him to thee Fourthly His testament is the evidence of love beloved it is impossible for me to utter or you to conceive the riches of Christs love expressed to you in his testament his Covenant herein Christian thou mightest read the strange love of Christ to thee in that he hath given thee his testament and delivered it to thee as his act and deed sealed with his own blood O how much did David make of this It was the last words of that sweet singer of Israel Although my house be not so with God yet be hath made with me an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure and this is all my sa'vation and all my desire 2 Sam. 23. He had all that heart could wish sor in this Covenant O Christian hath Christ given thee his covenant O make much of this covenant 't is a sweet token indeed O the great priviledges and sweet immunities that are conveyed to believers here freedome from sin from the guilt and power of sin Freedome from misery from the wrath of God the curse of the law from the sting of death from the evil of the world from the danger of hell And beside all this what legacies hath he given thee in the covenant God for thy Father himself for thy Saviour his spirit for thy comforter and sanctifier his Ministers for thy teachers his ordinances for thy furtherance in grace there he hath given thee thy adoption and assurance for heaven Do but look over this and say if thou canst that Christ hath not loved thee Fifthly His Blood is a stream of love dost thou doubt of the love of Christ do but look upon him on his crosse how his feet and hands and heart are pierced thou mayst see the love of Christ flowing out of every part Use Now since Christ hath so loved you you that are his people do you love him again O where should you bestow your love place your affections fix your hearts but here I shall give you two motives He desires your love and he deserves your love First Consider he desires your love You have seen a little how Christ doth love you and what doth he expect but that you should love him again and can there be any thing less that he could require O methinks thou shouldest give up thy heart to Christ. This is all that he expects for this love that you should love him again This Christ will accept and nothing short of this will he accept Love cannot be satisfied but by love again It must be paid in its own coyn Cant. 8. 7. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love it would be utterly contemned As no Treasure in the world can buy love purchase love so no sufficiency in the world will be sufficient for love unlesse you give love your love again 1 Cor. 13. 3. Now Christian be perswaded then to give away thy heart out of hand to Christ. O bestow thy love upon him wherehast thou such a thing in thee but that thou shouldst love Christ doth any man plant a vineyard and not expect to eat of the fruit of it hath he put love into thee and doth not he expect that thou shouldest love him Secondly He deserves your love I may say of him as they of the Centurion he is worthy thou shouldst do this thing for him for he loveth our nation Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive honor and strength c. He is worthy to receive all that you can give unto him If there were any thing else that were worthy of your love there might be some excuse that you did not bestow it upon Christ. But alass there is nothing here that doth deserve your love As Paul said was Paul Crucified for you c. so may I say were these things crucified for you but Christ was crucified for you he hath deserved your love This is he that came in to the world to seek and to save That came and found you naked and dead and wounded and then let out his blood and cured you This is he that when he came you spit upon him and refused him yet he would not be put off from you so but he would do you good How often hath he come and refreshed you with the refreshings of his love how often hath he taken you into his galleries and filled you with his secrets you that are believers may remember the places where he hath given you visits and made you tast of the powers of the world to come A SACRAMENTAL Speech grounded on Math. 15. 28. O woman great is thy faith WE have read many noted and remarkable stories of sundry great exploits that have been done by the renowned worthies of the world but there are no exploits nor atchievements so renowned as those that been done by faith The Scripture give us many instances of this kind and shews us how greatly the Lord Jesus Christ was pleased

you and walk in you this is the honor that God doth put upon you The Apostle tels you that you are Gods hou●…e Heb. 3. And God sayes of you his spiritual house as he did of the Typical house for the sence belongs more to the thing typified then to the house 1 Kings 9. 3. God says of every believer as of that house I have hallowed this house to put my name there for ever And mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually Thus doth God for th●…e believer that art his house Or as it is in 2 Kings 21. 7. In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the Tribes of Israel will I put my name for ever That was but a typical Temple you are the real Temples of the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6. 19. What know you not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of God and ye are not your own every believer is a real Temple wherein God is especially present so 1 Cor. 3. 16. Know you not that you are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you Brethren if you indeed believe methinks this priviledge should be matter of unspeakable Joy to you What! art thou of no meaner use then this to be a habitation of God through the spirit What! art thou a Temple for God to dwell in will God make of this Soul a Temple where all manner of lusts have dwelt and say of thy soul here will I dwell for ever this is my rest for I have desired it Oh adore the riches of Gods condescending grace others are the vessels of uncleanness the coffins of rottenness in whom Satan hath set up his throne 't is true of every wicked man what God sayes of Coniah Jer. 22. 28. He is a vessel wherein is no pleasure He is a vessel of the most noisome filthyness in the world Fifthly You are the trumpets of his praise when others are the instruments of unrighteousness O what base use are the others put too in their bonds of wickedness to the worst of drudgery They are the vessels of sin and slaves of Satan Rom. 6. 16. a miserable service this is a miserable Master indeed none have such miserable lives as those who have the work of sin to do●… Why would it not pity ones heart to see a company of poor Creatures laboring and toyling for their own ruine to see them tugging and sweating hard at it were to carry together faggots for their own burning This is that the wicked are doing they are but treasuring up the wrath of God against themselves at the last day they are but carrying together faggots and fewel for their own burning They labor and sweat all their days to pile up faggots and fewel pile upon pile to fill Tophet for their own burning But you are not of this use you are to be the Trumpets of Gods praise Oh blessed employment your work is the work of Angels whiles others are doing the work of Devils Isaiah 61. 3. That they might be called trees of renown the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified And so in another place this people have I formed for myself that they may be for my praise Isa. 43. 7. I have created him for my glory I have formed him yea I have made him When others shall be venting their malice and blasphemy against God you shall be the silver Trumpets that shall be ever sounding forth the praises of the Lord. Sixthly You are the men of his Counsel when others are strangers and aliens You are no more foreigners and strangers but fellow Citizens and of the houshold of God You are the attendants of his person you are of his privy Counsel You are the friends of God This was Abrahams priviledge Jam. 2. That he was called the friend of God Brethren all the long and magnificent titles of all the Monarchs of the Earth do not signifie half so much as this that I am speaking to you Now this is your prerogative Henceforth I call you not servants but friends and why so because you are the men of his Counsel The servant knoweth not what his Lord doth but whatsoever I have heard of the Father that have I declared unto you Herein Christ hath put a marvellous distinction between you and the men of the world I may say of you as Christ of them blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him So Psa. 147. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any Nation Seventhly You are the Jewels of his Crown when others are but the drosse and lumber And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in the day when I make up my Jewels Mal. 3. 17. Beloved you that are beleivers you are the very glory of Christ. Every believer is as a pearl put into the Crown of Jesus Christ. The Apostle speaks of beleevers of his converts that they were a great Crown to him He calls them his Joy and Crown of rejoycing Phil. 4. 1. But this is but little that you should be your Ministers Crown I tell you you are Christ's Crown and glory Isa. 62. 3. Thou shalt also be a Crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a Royal diadem in the hand of thy God Eightly You are the inheritors of the Kingdome when others are the sons of perdition Luk. 12. 32. Fear not little flock 't is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom So come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you Who can utter the sweetness of that promise 't is our Saviors parting promise to his disciples at his last supper Luke 22. 28. 29 30. You are they which have continued with me in my Temptations and I appoint unto you a Kingdome as my Father hath appointed unto me that you may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom and sit upon thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Oh how sweet are these words Lay the mouth of Faith at these promises and suck the sweetness of them Look upon it as a reality that God prepared for you a Kingdome 't is so why should God go to deceive you and you may lay your claim to it boldly God delights to see your humble boldness The spirit beareth witness with our spirits that we are the sons of God and if Sons then heirs joynt heirs with Christ Heirs of his Kingdom Fourthly If you look upon your selves as prisoners and so God hath done more for you then he hath for others Ah Christians this is the meaning of this day that you might celebrate the kindness of God to you in prison O remember and forget not how signally God hath owned you Brethren 't is your priviledge and mercy that God hath given you hearts to own him in times