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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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To this purpose it is said by Solomon, 1that The wounds of a lover are faithful, and the kisses of an enemy are to be prayed against: (for so the words must be read) When a faithful friend doth rebuke us, and seek to wound our ⟨p. 68⟩hearts for sin, that is exceeding profitable for us: but when an enemy under pretence of love (whereof by kissing they then made show) doth come against us,2 and seek to undermine us, that is exceeding dangerous, and the hurt there of much to be prayed against.
To this purpose it is said by Salomon, 1that The wounds of a louer are faithfull, and the kisses of an enemie are to be praied against: (for so the words must be read) When a faithfull friend doth rebuke vs, and seeke to wound our ⟨p. 68⟩hearts for sinne, that is exceeding profitable for vs: but when an enemie vnder pretence of loue (whereof by kissing they then made shew) doth come against vs,2 and seeke to vndermine vs, that is exceeding dangerous, and the hurt there of much to be praied against.
- 1Prou. 27. 6.
- 2Judas, Matth. 26. 49.Iudas, Matth. 26. 49.