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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
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Again, a mere natural man cannot but fear1 that evil that he apprehendeth †to be near at hand, yea that he seeth full before his face. But itrue Faith hath an eye; And this eye of Faith maketh things unseen, seen; ( kMoses saw him by Faith, that cannot be seen: And lBetter, saith Ambrose, are those things seen that are not seen, but believed only, than those things that are seen:) mthings absent present, (as is nChrists body to our Faith, though it be now in heaven, and as far from us, as heaven and earth are distant either from other:) and “things a far off near at hand: oAbraham above a thousand (yea two thousand) years before with this eye of Faith saw Christs day, as present, and rejoiced: and NOAH in like manner by the same eye of Faith saw the Worlds destruction as present, above an hundred years before the Flood, that caused it, came, and feared.
Againe, a meere naturall man cannot but feare1 that euill that hee apprehendeth †to be neare at hand, yea that he seeth full before his face. But itrue Faith hath an eye; And this eye of Faith maketh things vnseene, seene; ( k