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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.
[And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall lament for him, &c.] In that this great lamentation is set down as an effect of their beholding of Christ whom by their sins they had crucified, this doctrine may hence be gathered.
[And they shall looke vpon me whom they haue pierced, and they shall lament for him, &c.] In that this great lamentation is set downe as an effect of their beholding of Christ whom by their sinnes they had crucified, this doctrine may hence be gathered.
Doct. 4 The due consideration of the death of Christ, is 1a most forcible means to break the hearts of Christians with godly sorrow.
Doct. 4 The due consideration of the death of Christ, is 1a most forcible means to breake the hearts of Christians with godly sorrow.
- 1The consideration of Christ his sufferings, is a forcible means to godly sorrow.The consideration of Christ his sufferings, is a forcible meanes to godly sorrow.
There is no such motive to make men weep bitterly for their offences, as to weigh with themselves in a serious manner, that they by their sins have slain the Lord of life; that his bitterest adversaries were not the causes of that his shameful and painful death which he endured upon the tree, but that they themselves brought him thither, and were the procurers of that his bitter passion. Christ