The life & death of Mr. Joseph Alleine, late teacher of the church at Taunton, in Somersetshire, assistant to Mr. Newton whereunto are annexed diverse Christian letters of his, full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of Godliness, both in persons and families, and his funeral sermon, preached by Mr. Newton.

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The life & death of Mr. Joseph Alleine, late teacher of the church at Taunton, in Somersetshire, assistant to Mr. Newton whereunto are annexed diverse Christian letters of his, full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of Godliness, both in persons and families, and his funeral sermon, preached by Mr. Newton.
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Alleine, Theodosia.
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London :: Printed for Nevil Simmons ...,
1672.
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Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.
Funeral sermons.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"The life & death of Mr. Joseph Alleine, late teacher of the church at Taunton, in Somersetshire, assistant to Mr. Newton whereunto are annexed diverse Christian letters of his, full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of Godliness, both in persons and families, and his funeral sermon, preached by Mr. Newton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

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His Time-redeeming Thrist.

To conclude; That he might effect all the excellent pur∣poses of a Holy Life, he set a high value on his most precious Time, and did with so Wise and Holy Fore-cast each day redeem and fill it up, that he did not onely not do nothing, but also not little, though in a little and short time. All Companies did hear him proclaim the Price of Time, and how excellently and advantagiously he did it in publick be∣fore his Ejection, in several most useful Sermons on Ephes- 〈◊〉〈◊〉 16. many that heard him, do to this day, to their great com∣fort and profit, remember. And the more remarkable was this his Holy Thrist, because prophetical of his short 〈◊〉〈◊〉 here on Earth.

His diligence and holiness in this his Sphere of Action, was a presage of his speedy Translation, as with Enoch, to the Sphere of Vision and Fruition, for a reward of his singular Piety; it being not probable that he who made so great a haste to dispatch his Heavenly Work, should be long without his desired Recompence.

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