{"id":210,"date":"2007-02-24T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2013-06-28T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:14:04","slug":"richard-alleine-on-the-oversight-of-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Richard Alleine on the Oversight of Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alleine (1611-1691), like his other Puritan counterparts, understood the importance of oversight. Addressing his hearers on the importance of guarding their hearts (Prov 4:23-27), he mentioned others whom God has ordained to watch over us. He quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=hebrews%2013:17&amp;version=47\">Hebrews 13:17<\/a> and then wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We deal so plainly and so closely with you, we are so instant in exhorting, reproving, warning, and watching over you, because we must give an account of how we discharge our duty towards you&#8221;\u009d<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FInstructions-About-Heartwork-Puritan-Writings%2Fdp%2F1573581348%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1172373945%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Instructions About Heartwork <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"swgwboykwavboxrscnkx eqnoxeshosnsbycfxqoj\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, 7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>May our ministries also be shaped by this crucial truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleine (1611-1691), like his other Puritan counterparts, understood the importance of oversight. Addressing his hearers on the importance of guarding their hearts (Prov 4:23-27), he mentioned others whom God has ordained to watch over us. He quoted Hebrews 13:17 and then wrote: &#8220;We deal so plainly and so closely with you, we are so instant &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Richard Alleine on the Oversight of Souls&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}