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The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax
The bruised reed, and smoking flax Some sermons contracted out of the 12. of Matth. 20. At the desire, and for the good of weaker Christians. By R. Sibbes. D.D.The bruised reede, and smoaking flax Some sermons contracted out of the 12. of Matth. 20. At the desire, and for the good of weaker Christians. By R. Sibbes. D.D.
London: printed by M. Flesher for R. Dawlman, 1630
THE Bruised Reed, and Smoking Flax.THE Bruised Reed, and Smoaking Flax.
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.
There must be light to discover a further end then nature, for which we are Christians, and a rule suitable directing to that end, which is the will of GOD in CHRIST, discovering his good pleasure towards us, and our duty towards him, and in virtue of this discovery, we do all that we do that any way may further our reckoning: the eye must first be single, and then the whole body and ⟨p. 225⟩frame of our conversation will be light: otherwise both we and our course of life are nothing but darkness; The whole conversation of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge digested into will, affection, and practice. If the first […] in the stomach be not good, that in the liver cannot be good: so if there be error in the judgement it mars the whole practice, as an error in the foundation doth the building: GOD will have no blind sacrifices, no unreasonable services, but will have us to love him with all our mind, that is, with our ⟨p. 226⟩understanding part, as well as with all our hearts, that is, the affecting part of the soul.
There must bee light to discover a further end then nature, for which wee are Christians, and a rule sutable directing to that end, which is the will of GOD in CHRIST, discovering his good pleasure towards us, and our duty towards him, and in vertue of this discovery, we doe all that we doe that any way may further our reckoning: the eye must first be single, and then the whole body and ⟨p. 225⟩frame of our conversation will bee light: otherwise both we and our course of life are nothing but darknesse; The whole conversation of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge digested into will, affection, and practice. If the first 〈…〉 in the stomach be not good, that in the liver cannot be good: so if there bee errour in the judgement it marres the whole practice, as an error in the foundation doth the building: GOD will have no blind sacrifices, no unreasonable services, but will have us to love him with all our minde, that is, with our ⟨p. 226⟩understanding part, as well as with all our hearts, that is, the affecting part of the soule.