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Sermons preached before his MajestySermons preached before his Maiestie
Sermons preached before his Majesty; and upon other special occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuel's support of sorrowful sinners. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.Sermons preached before his Maiestie; and vpon other speciall occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuels support of sorrowfull sinners. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Eliot's Court Press and R. Young for Leonard Greene of Cambridge, 1630
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.
Thirdly, there is prefixed before it a means how to do it, Take heed, or Consider, that is, it 1is a thing that will not easily be done, it is a thing that will cost you some labour; a man may do a bungling action without consideration, but if he will do a thing exactly, he must take heed unto it, Take heed that you walk exactly, not as fools but as wise.
Thirdly, there is prefixed before it a meanes how to doe it, Take heed, or Consider, that is, it 1is a thing that will not easily bee done, it is a thing that will cost you some labour; a man may doe a bungling action without consideration, but if he will doe a thing exactly, he must take heed vnto it, Take heed that you walke exactly, not as fooles but as wise.
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I will open the words in particular, when I come to handle them.
Before I come to the particular points which these words afford us, something we may gather from this particle Therefore: Therefore is a relative particle, it hath reference to that which went before, You are children of light, therefore walk exactly, not as fools but as wise: Therefore; that is, since you are the children of light, since you are those upon whom the Name of God is called, since you profess the fear of God, it behooves you to look to your selves that you walk exactly. In a table upon which a Picture is drawn, before the ⟨p. 75⟩1