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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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2 Nay further, men are so far from taking pains §2to come to a true acknowledgement of their iniquities, till such time as there is a breach made into their hearts by godly sorrow, they do not so much as desire to be ⟨p. 4⟩delivered from them, nor make any reckoning of Gods mercy for the pardoning of them: till such time as they become mourners for sin, they cannot possibly hunger and thirst after righteousness.1 And indeed what reason is there that they should esteem of that medicine which will cure, when they do not feel themselves to be sick? they think it a matter worth the looking after, to be freed from poverty, from infamy, from the pestilence, &c. but as for the corruptions of their nature, and the sinfulness of their ways, they were never much troubled with them, and therefore they make little account to be delivered from them. See this point more at large in M. Dods Sermon on Isa. 1 Doct. 1.
2 Nay further, men are so farre from taking paines §2to come to a true acknowledgment of their iniquities, till such time as there is a breach made into their hearts by godly sorrow, they doe not so much as desire to be ⟨p. 4⟩deliuered from them, nor make any reckoning of Gods mercy for the pardoning of them: till such time as they become mourners for sinne, they cannot possibly hunger and thirst after righteousnes.1 And indeed what reason is there that they should esteeme of that medicine which will cure, when they doe not feele themselues to be sicke? they thinke it a matter worth the looking after, to be freed from pouertie, from infamie, from the pestilence, &c. but as for the corruptions of their nature, and the sinfulnesse of their waies, they were neuer much troubled with them, and therefore they make little account to be deliuered from them. See this poynt more at large in M. Dods Sermon on