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The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.HThe soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H
The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.H.The soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H.
London: printed by R. Young and John Dawson, 1640
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.
Answ. It is one day of the sorrowful seed-time; the harvest comes afterward, and the Eclipse will soon be over: in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me, Mic. 7.8. Some lightsome passages there are in the mean time.1
Answ. It is one day of the sorrowfull seed-time; the harvest comes afterward, and the Eclipse will soone be over: in darkenesse the Lord shall bee a light unto me, Mic. 7.8. Some lightsome passages there are in the meane time.1
- 1Sharpe Preachers make you gainers.
Use. 1. If so, then by our sharpest preaching you ⟨p. 315⟩receive damage by us in nothing; we make some weep and take on for their sins, we wring tears from them: we take them off from their pleasures of sin, which are for a moment. But while you are set a sowing in tears, you are set into the right way of reaping in joy. We give you the best counsel that can be given, and little deserve that outcry that is made against us; Oh this is bitter preaching, this man speaks not in love, he would make us all despair, I think: and, Should not a Minister come with the spirit of meekness? Yes, but not meekness opposed to zeal: meekness to the bruised reed, or broken heart; to others, sharpness. A corrosive for some is wholesomest, some patients need lancing: and all is well, that ends well. If our preaching bring you to an harvest of joy, no matter though it compelled you to sow in tears. And, what wise man will think his estate either so holy, or so safe, as to reject tears for a womanish passion?