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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.
The like is alleged by our Saviour against the Sodomites, 1as against those of the old world, viz: that they bought and sold, and built in covetousness, pride and vanity, as if they had been ever to dwell upon the earth, not caring what craft and fraud they used, nor what snares and grins they laid for men, if they might satisfy their covetous and ambitious desires.2 More might be said concerning this point, both for proofs and reasons, but that it hath been handled at large elsewhere.
The like is alleaged by our Sauiour against the Sodomites, 1as against those of the old world, viz: that they bought and sold, and built in couetousnesse, pride and vanitie, as if they had bene euer to dwell vpon the earth, not caring what craft and fraud they vsed, nor what snares and grins they laid for men, if they might satisfie their couetous and ambitious desires.2 More might be said concerning this point, both for proofes and reasons, but that it hath bene handled at large elsewhere.
- 1Luk. 17. 28.
- 2See M. Dods Sermon on Isa. 10. Doct. 1. Use. 1.See M. Dods Sermon on Isa. 10. Doct. 1. Vse. 1.
This serveth. First for terror unto those that satisfy themselves with this, that no body can charge them with gross sins, and therefore they imagine their case to be good, and that they need not trouble themselves in regard of their offences.