A20529:159
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.
God maketh his judgements suitable to our sins.1
God maketh his iudgements sutable to our sinnes.1
- 1Doct. 3. Gods punishments are answerable to mens sins, Joel. 1. 5.Doct. 3. Gods punishments are answerable to mens sinnes, Ioel. 1. 5.
David was lifted up, because he had so many strong and valiant men: therefore doth God lessen the number of them. So (Joel, 1. 5.) it is said, Weep & howl ye drinkers of wine, for the new wine shall be pulled from your mouth. ⟨p. 351⟩This was a most just correction, that they should be punished with scarcity of drink, seeing they had before time so wretchedly abused the same. In like sort doth the Lord meet with proud men, turning their glory into shame, as we may observe in Tyre. Isa. 23. 8. where the question is made,1 Who hath decreed this against Tyre (that crowneth men,) whose Merchants are Princes? whose Chapmen are the Nobles of the world? And the answer is made, vers. 9. The Lord of Hosts hath decreed this, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring to contempt all them that be glorious in the earth. So for covetous men, they are many times brought to beggary, according to that of the wise man,