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The first dish at the Will-shire feast, Novemb. 9, 1654, or, A sermon preached…The first dish at the Wil-shire feast, Novemb. 9, 1654, or, A sermon preached…
The first dish at the Will-shire feast, Novemb. 9, 1654, or, A sermon preached at Laurence Jury to those that there offered their peace-offerings, and went thence to dine at Merchant-Tailors-Hall by Samuel Annesley ...The first dish at the Wil-shire feast, Novemb. 9, 1654, or, A sermon preached at Laurence Jury to those that there offered their peace-offerings, and went thence to dine at Merchant-Taylors-Hall by Samuel Annesley ...
London: printed by E.T. for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1655
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For the cure of it. Be convinced of the vanity of the creature. Do but, saith Cyprian, withdraw thy self a little, suppose thy self on the top of some mountain, where thou mightest safely see fluctuantis mundi turbines, the world in its proper colours, thou wouldst pity the world, and rather bless God for thy being delivered from the snares of it, then desire to have much of it. Alas poor rich man! thou dost shift, and shuffle, and make shipwreck of faith, and conscience, and all to get — what I pray you? nay, I know not what, all thou canst possibly get, will not buy a plaster broad enough to lay upon thy wounded conscience: this is directly cross to Ephes. 5.15, 16. See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
For the cure of it. Be convinced of the vanity of the creature. Do but, saith Cyprian, withdraw thy self a little, suppose thy self on the top of some mountain, where thou mightest safely see fluctuantis mundi turbines, the world in its proper colours, thou wouldst pitie the world, and rather blesse God for thy being delivered from the snares of it, then desire to have much of it. Alas poor rich man! thou dost shift, and shuffle, and make shipwrack of faith, and conscience, and all to get — what I pray you? nay, I know not what, all thou canst possibly get, will not buy a plaister broad enough to lay upon thy wounded conscience: this is directly crosse to Ephes. 5.15, 16. See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fooles, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the dayes are evill.
The second use is of Exhortation.
First, Be persuaded every one of you to mind Religion seriously. You know Christ tells us, that towards the end of the world, the times shall be like those before the flood, men shall be eating and drinking, &c. but in this unlike them; for then one might have a temporal deliverance by the faith of another: but now, two shall be in one house, the one shall be taken, (to glory) and the other left (to perish) two shall be in one bed, the one shall be taken (into Abraham's bosom) the other