A20529:156
Four godly and fruitful sermons two preached at Drayton in Oxford-shire, at a fast,…Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast,…
Four godly and fruitful sermons two preached at Drayton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enjoined by authority, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispersed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalm. Whereunto is annexed a brief tract of zeal. / By I. Dod. R. Cleaver.Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enioyned by authoritie, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispearsed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalme. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe tract of zeale. / By I. Dod. R. Cleauer.
London: printed by T.C. for William Welbie, 1611
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.
And as for our estate, so even for our lives and for our souls, the case is better with us in the time of pestilence then in the time of wars: for then all our families, wives, children, servants, and all may be barbarously slain, or worse used before our eyes, or we before theirs: and if not so, yet they must be left to Idolaters, and in danger to be vassals of sin and Satan: but now if death come, it is nothing so lamentable: if life be granted, it is nothing so dangerous: for though we be taken away, yet our friends shall remain with the Saints & servants of God; and they that have been our Christian friends, will be theirs, at least there is very great hope of their happiness, both here, and hereafter, in regard of that liberty of the Gospel which through Gods goodness is still maintained. And therefore great cause have we to magnify the name of God, that when our late gracious Queen was taken away, & the Land must ⟨p. 50⟩needs be exercised with some heavy stroke or other, that he then miraculously delivered us from the violence of the sword of man, and smote our Nation with his own sword.
And as for our estate, so euen for our liues and for our soules, the case is better with vs in the time of pestilence then in the time of warres: for then all our families, wiues, children, seruants, and all may bee barbarously slaine, or worse vsed before our eyes, or we before theirs: and if not so, yet they must be left to Idolaters, and in danger to be vassalls of sinne and Sathan: but now if death come, it is nothing so lamentable: if life bee graunted, it is nothing so dangerous: for though we be taken away, yet our friends shall remaine with the Saints & seruants of God; and they that haue bene our Christian friēds, will be theirs, at least there is very great hope of their happinesse, both here, and hereafter, in regard of that liberty of the Gospell which through Gods goodnes is still maintained. And therefore great cause haue wee to magnifie the name of God, that when our late gracious Queene was taken away, & the Land must ⟨p. 50⟩needs bee exercised with some heauie stroke or other, that hee then miraculouslie deliuered vs from the violence of the sword of man, and smote our Nation with his owne sword.