A20529:162
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.
Would we then have our houses and our children free from Gods strokes, and in particular from the pestilence (as that many pretend that they are more careful for their children, then for themselves;) then let us never commit any sin to set them up, for that is the next way to deprive us of them: when we carry more affection to them then to the Lord himself, we endanger our selves and them both. The Lords will is, that you should in the first place serve him, and so doing, you shall make your children, not Lords but kings, not of an earthly, but of an heavenly kingdom.
Would we then haue our houses and our children free from Gods strokes, and in particular from the pestilence (as that many pretend that they are more carefull for their children, then for themselues;) then let vs neuer commit any sinne to set them vp, for that is the next way to depriue vs of them: when we carry more affection to them then to the Lord himselfe, we endanger our selues and them both. The Lords will is, that you should in the first place serue him, and so doing, you shall make your children, not Lords but kings, not of an earthly, but of an heauenly kingdome.
The next thing here briefly to be considered is [the space] in which these seventy thousand men died, namely in three days: Doctrine, that
The next thing heere briefly to be considered is [the space] in which these seuentie thousand men died, namely in three daies: Doctrine, that
When God sets in with his judgements they shall be far dispersed in a short time.1