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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.
to eat and drink without fear, without prayer, and thanks-giving, as if the creatures were our own, and not the Lords, to abuse the blessings of God to surfeiting and drunkenness, &c: these and the like corruptions, do turn eating and drinking into sin, which in themselves are not only allowable, but also necessary. The like may be said concerning marriage,1 it is a sanctified ordinance of God unto those that use it holily: but then it becomes very sinful and hateful unto the Lord,2 when the Sons of God do join with the daughters of men, and professors are yoked with Infidels, for beauty, or commodity, or any such carnal respect: yet that is a horrible sin, too too common among such as profess Christianity, that they make no scruple of matching their children with those, whom they know by their works to be as yet the children of the devil; and so in other matters, if they can prove them once to ⟨p. 10⟩be in themselves lawful, they make no conscience of the means they use, nor of the end they propose in accomplishing of them.
to eate and drinke without feare, without prayer, and thanks-giuing, as if the creatures were our owne, and not the Lords, to abuse the blessings of God to surfetting and drunkennesse, &c: these and the like corruptions, doe turne eating and drinking into sinne, which in themselues are not onely allowable, but also necessarie. The like may be said concerning marriage,1 it is a sanctified ordinance of God vnto those that vse it holily: but then it becomes very sinfull and hatefull vnto the Lord,2 when the Sonnes of God doe ioyne with the daughters of men, and professors are yoaked with Infidels, for beautie, or commoditie, or any such carnall respect: yet that is a horrible sinne, too too common among such as professe Christianitie, that they make no scruple of matching their children with those, whome they know by their workes to be as yet the children of the diuell; and so in other matters, if they can proue them once to ⟨p. 10⟩