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Ten sermons tending chiefly to the fitting of men for the worthy receiving of…Ten sermons tending chiefely to the fitting of men for the worthy receiuing of…
Ten sermons tending chiefly to the fitting of men for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Wherein amongst many other holy instructions: the doctrines of sound repentance and humiliation, and of Gods special favours unto penitent sinners, and worthy communicants are largely and effectually handled. The six first, by I. Dod. The four last, by R. Cleaver. Whereunto is annexed, a plain and learned metaphrase on the epistle to the Colossians, written by a godly and judicious preacher. There is also set before the sermons, a short dialogue of preparation: containing the chief points that concern the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper, taken for the most part, out of the sermons following: and collected into a method for the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in this matter.Ten sermons tending chiefely to the fitting of men for the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper VVherein amongst many other holy instructions: the doctrines of sound repentance and humiliation, and of Gods speciall fauours vnto penitent sinners, and worthy communicants are largely and effectually handled. The six first, by I. Dod. The foure last, by R. Cleauer. Whereunto is annexed, a plaine and learned metaphrase on the epistle to the Collossians, written by a godly and iudicious preacher. There is also set before the sermons, a short dialogue of preparation: containing the chiefe points that concerne the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper, taken for the most part, out of the sermons following: and collected into a method for the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in this matter.
London: printed by William Hall for Roger Jackson, 1610London: printed by William Hall for Roger Iackson, 1610
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.
This is promised in Deuteronomy, where Moses speaketh thus unto the people of Israel: If thou shalt obey diligently the voice of the Lord thy God, and observe and do all his commandments, which I command thee this day, then the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth. And all these ⟨p. 101⟩blessings shall come on thee, &c. Blessed shalt thou be in the City, and blessed also in the field, &c. and so he goes on, showing that true and faithful obedience, is that which bringeth all manner of blessings for body and soul, for name and estate, yea, and for seed and prosperity also. 1And therefore the Apostle telleth Timothy, that goodliness is great gain, and that it hath the promises of this life, and of the life to come: in which regard David saith, I have been young, and now am old; 2yet I saw never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread. He had seen (and so may we) that children of great men have broken forth into many horrible sins, and so have been brought to a strange, and miserable, and violent death, and to many woeful straits and extremities before their death: but he never saw (neither shall we see) the godly seed of godly men, forsaken of God and men, and left as vagabonds to beg their bread: but God hath ever had (and still will have) a special care of them; and ever made all necessary provision for them: either he himself by a more particular providence of his, casteth sufficiently of these outward things upon them; or blesseth their labours, so that they are made a means of maintenance unto them: or if they fail that way, he moveth the hearts of some or other of his servants, to pity them, and to supply their wants; so that whatsoever their necessities be, they are freed from that curse that is denounced against the seed of the wicked, to wit, 3that they should wander up and down as vagrants, begging their bread, and making a trade of that vile and wretched course of life.
This is promised in Deuteronomie, where Moses speaketh thus vnto the people of Israel: If thou shalt obey diligently the voice of the Lord thy God, and obserue and doe all his commandements, which I command thee this day, then the Lord thy God will set thee on high aboue all the nations of the earth. And all these