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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 FIRST SERMON, UPON the twelfth of Zechariah.THE FIRST SERMON, VPON the twelfth of Zechariah.
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.
For the first comparison, it is said, That they should lament for him, as one that mourneth for his only son, and be sorry, as one is sorry for his first borne. If parents have many children, yet it will much grieve them to part with any of them: but if they have but one only son, who is likely to be the heir of the family, and they lose him, and so are disappointed of their hope, then they usually mourn with an exceeding bitter lamentation, as the woman of the city of Nain did for the death ⟨p. 5⟩of her only son. Luke 7. 11. Such (the holy Ghost saith) shall be the sorrow of all true penitent persons, when they apprehend the multitude and grievousness of their sins, whereby they have slain the Lord of life.
For the first comparison, it is said, That they should lament for him, as one that mourneth for his only sonne, and be sorry, as one is sorry for his first borne. If parents haue many children, yet it will much grieue them to part with any of them: but if they haue but one onely sonne, who is likely to be the heire of the family, and they lose him, and so are disappointed of their hope, then they vsually mourne with an exceeding bitter lamentation, as the woman of the cittie of Nain did for the death ⟨p. 5⟩of her onely son. Luke 7. 11. Such (the holy Ghost saith) shall be the sorrow of all true penitent persons, when they apprehend the multitude and grieuousnesse of their sinnes, whereby they haue slaine the Lord of life.
The second comparison, here used to express the measure of their sorrow, is taken from the example of the Jews, who when their godly and worthy king Josiah was slain in the valley of Megiddo near Hadadrimmon, in fighting against Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, they lamented for him very1