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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
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If we embrace the substance thereof willingly, and fail in the circumstances unwillingly, God will never lay it to our charge. Examples will prove this more fully unto us. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, (saith the Apostle James) and ye know what end God made with him. Now if we read over the book of Job, we shall find, that there was in him a great deal of passion and distemper: and that he held out but very weakly in a great part of the conflict: as when he cursed the day of his birth, & conceived hardly of the Lord, and was ready to dispute and reason the matter with him: showing much unwillingness to submit himself to those strokes which God had laid upon him: for which he was justly reproved both by Elihu and also by the Lords own mouth: yet because he held out in the substance of godliness, in the middest of all his woes and miseries, and at the beginning thereof, humbled himself, saying, Naked came I out of my mothers womb, 1