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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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for all the friends and means that the world affordeth cannot quench this flame, nor recover this loss, as they may the other: and therefore ⟨p. 18⟩they are the fools of the world, that are the sinners of the world: and there is no such frenzy, as for a man to provoke his Creator: and whatsoever applause wicked persons have for a season, yet at length all the world shall see, and they themselves shall feel, that they have been notorious fools: Jer. 17. 11.
for all the friends and meanes that the world affordeth cannot quench this flame, nor recouer this losse, as they may the other: and therefore ⟨p. 18⟩they are the fooles of the world, that are the sinners of the world: and there is no such frenfie, as for a man to prouoke his Creator: and whatsoeuer applause wicked persons haue for a season, yet at length all the world shall see, and they themselues shall feele, that they haue beene notorious fooles: Ier. 17. 11.
This serveth for instruction,1 that if we would not be branded with the name of fools and Idiots, we be careful to eschew all manner of sins: and on the contrary, if we would be truly wise, let us cleave unto the Lord in constant and faithful obedience: that was the reason why David was wiser then his enemies, 2then his teachers, then the aged, because he kept Gods statutes. What made those in the Gospel to be foolish Virgins, but this, that they made not provision for eternal life? And what made the other five to be indeed wise, but that their hearts and lives were adorned and beautified with grace and goodness? Ahithophel was a deep politician; yet because he was destitute of heavenly wisdom, he showed himself to be but a miserable base fool: for when he had no means to help himself, he went and hanged himself: if one had studied an hundred years, he could hardly have found out a readier way to manifest his notable folly, then he took in that horrible murdering of himself.