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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
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Secondly, Gods mercy is no more lessened then his power is, by mens withdrawing of themselves from us,§2 he loves his people when they have no friends, as well as when they have many friends; nay he manifesteth his love more at such times: for in him the fatherless findeth mercy. 1And then doth he exercise the bowels of his compassion, when men show little or no compassion at all.
Secondly, Gods mercy is no more lessened then his power is, by mens withdrawing of themselues from vs,§2 he loues his people when they haue no friends, as well as when they haue many friends; nay he manifesteth his loue more at such times: for in him the fatherlesse findeth mercy. 1And then doth he exercise the bowels of his cōpassion, whē men shew little or no cōpassion at all.
- 1Hos. 14.
When we see children to have rich and merciful parents to provide for them, we do not much pity them: but as for those that are fatherless and friendless, that are hungry & naked, and altogether destitute of relief, we tender their case, and are ready to relieve them. Can we carry such an affection towards other mens children that are distressed and helpless, and will not the Lord our God have a greater care of his own children in the like case? Will he leave them because men have forsaken them? No surely. But when they are in distresses and straits, and that through their own foolishness and disobedience, if they humble themselves,1