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Three godly and fruitful sermons; the two first preached by Master John DodThree godlie and fruitful sermons; the two first preached by Maister Iohn Dod
Three godly and fruitful sermons; the two first preached by Master John Dod: the last by Master Robert Cleaver. Whereunto are annexed, five propositions, or points of doctrine, comprehended in three other sermons, by the same authorThree godlie and fruitful sermons; the two first preached by Maister Iohn Dod: the last by Maister Robert Cleauer. Whereunto are annexed, fiue propositions, or points of doctrine, comprehended in three other sermons, by the same author
London: printed by N. Okes and F. Kingston for William Welby, 1610
THE THIRD SERMON upon the fourteenth Psalm.THE THIRD SERMON vpon the fourteenth Psalme.
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.
Yea further (which is of all other things most strange) the poor lambs of Christ are so far from being torn in pieces by those Lyons, that they become Lyons themselves, not for cruelty but for courage. For so saith the Prophet Micah: And the 1remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the mids of many people, as the Lyons among the beasts of the forest, and as the Lyons whelp among the flocks ⟨p. 103⟩of sheep. The meaning of which place is, that some few poor Christians standing in the cause of God, and coming furnished with the grace and power of the holy Ghost, should be able to daunt and terrify the hearts of many sinful persons, and cause them even to quake and tremble, as Paul did Felix, when he reasoned powerfully and2 effectually concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgement to come. In so much that many who are hypocrites in heart, will make a show of religion and piety, and seem to conform themselves unto Christians whom they hate with a deadly hatred: which plainly argueth, that there is a kind of majesty of God, shining forth3 in the faces and in the carriage of Gods servants, which the vilest reprobates are many times driven to acknowledge, though full sore against their wills.
Yea further (which is of all other things most strange) the poore lambes of Christ are so far from being torne in pieces by those Lyons, that they become Lyons themselues, not for cruelty but for courage. For so saith the Prophet Micah: And the 1remnant of Iacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the mids of many people, as the Lyons among the beastes of the forest, and as the Lyons whelpe among the flockes ⟨p. 103⟩of sheepe. The meaning of which place is, that some few poore Christians standing in the cause of God, and comming furnished with the grace and power of the holy Ghost, should be able to daunt and terrifie the hearts of many sinfull persons, and cause them euen to quake and tremble, as Paul did Felix, when he reasoned powerfully and