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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, we must not content our selves when once we have gotten the word and spirit of God within us, but we must still strive to keep our hearts humble and ⟨p. 317⟩lowly: for otherwise we shall not feel the strokes of the word and spirit of God;1 therefore it is said Isay. 30. 20 21.) that when the Lord had dieted his people a while [giving them the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction] and thereby taken down the pride and stubbornness of their hearts, that then [their ears should hear a word behind them, saying, this is the way walk in it, &c. that is when they were thus humbled, as soon as ever they had committed any offence, they should presently have a blow upon their hearts for it, and be full of fear and anguish: though no man in the world tell them of it, yet the word in their hearts will be like a good guide that is still following a little child, and telling him, this is not the right way, leave it; there is the right way, walk in it: but many have hearts pestered with pride, and lust, and covetousness, and yet go a whole month, nay, many months and years together, and never feel any rebuke in their consciences. How comes this to pass that others are full of grief and full of tears for their sins, and they are never troubled for them? is it because there is greater uprightness in them, then there is in others? No surely it is because they have a more blind mind, and a more proud and senseless hart then others have: for the more humble any one is, the more often shall he hear the voice of the spirit, checking him when he goeth out of the way, & moving him to turn again into the right way.
Secondly, we must not content our selues when once we haue gotten the word and spirit of God within vs, but we must still striue to keepe our hearts humble and ⟨p. 317⟩lowly: for otherwise we shall not feele the strokes of the word and spirit of God;1 therefore it is said