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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
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.
If we could keep this golden mixture, we should stop the mouths of the adversaries, who accuse us to be ⟨p. 97⟩full of rancour and malice, if we be angry as enemies to their sin, but grieved in that for sin they are become enemies to God.
If wee could keepe this golden mixture, wee should stop the mouthes of the aduersaries, who accuse vs to be ⟨p. 97⟩full of rancour and malice, if wee be angrie as enemies to their sinne, but grieued in that for sinne they are become enemies to God.
Further, we must know, that true zeal maketh us as §10willing to be admonished,1 as careful to admonish: and that not only of our superiors, which is an easy thing, because there we must of necessity yield: but also of our inferiors, whom we may seem to contemn. All men will grant, that a child ought willingly to be admonished of his father, or a servant of his master: but few will in practise give this, that a father should listen to the advertisement of his son, or that a master should receive an admonition of his servant. Howbeit Job saith, he durst not contemn the judgement of his servant or of his maid, when they did contend with him, because in a duty of piety, he looked to them,2 not as servants, but as brethren; he looked not to the speaker only, which in respect of his calling was his inferior, but unto the things spoken in the ordinance of God, unto whom Job himself was an inferior, and before whom he knew there was no respect of persons.
Further, wee must know, that true zeale maketh vs as