A01554:208
Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…
Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland, 1623London: printed by Iohn Haviland, 1623
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is one point of mans misery, saith the Heathen man, above other of the creatures, that yMan alone is vexed with care, and grief, and thought, and fear for the future. But it is a main point of mans eminency, say I, *above other creatures, and of Christian men above other men, that they are not zall for the present, but athey have their eyes in their forehead, to foresee future evils. And as the bChinese use to say of themselves, that all other Nations in the world see but with one eye, they only with two: So natural men have but one eye, the carnal eye of natural reason; that can pierce no further than the light of nature ⟨p. 98⟩reacheth: but Christian men have two, the cspiritual eye of faith also, (for the one putteth not out the other) whereby they are enabled to foresee future evils, even such also as no sense or reason is able to apprehend.
It is one point of mans misery, saith the Heathen man, aboue other of the creatures, that yMan alone is vexed with care, and griefe, and thought, and feare for the future. But it is a maine point of mans eminencie, say I, *aboue other creatures, and of Christian men aboue other men, that they are not zall for the present, but athey haue their eyes in their forehead, to foresee future euils. And as the