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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 4: Now is the time. OR, Instructions for the present improving the season of Grace. Serm. IV.
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.
2. Show you the force and strength of them both distinctly, to engage us to a present improvement of the season of Grace.
2. Shew you the force and strength of them both distinctly, to engage us to a present improvement of the season of Grace.
1. And First I shall show you the force of the first Argument, and that is the fitness of this present season of Grace for our working and employment. It is (saith the Apostle) 1. The Time, 2. The Day.
1. And First I shall shew you the force of the first Argument, and that is the fitness of this present season of Grace for our working and employment. It is (saith the Apostle) 1. The Time, 2. The Day.
Sect. 11 1. It is the Time. I showed you in the explaining, of the sense of the first Argument the meaning of the word Time. I told you it did clearly import tempestivity, opportunity, the flower, the cream, the lustre, the beauty of time. But how doth this consideration, that the present Season of Grace is the time of opportunity, urge and enforce the duty of a present improving of the season of Grace? In answer whereunto I offer these following considerations.
Sect. 11 1. It is the Time. I shewed you in the explaining, of the sense of the first Argument the meaning of the word Time. I told you it did clearly import tempestivity, opportunity, the flower, the cream, the lustre, the beauty of time. But how doth this consideration, that the present Season of Grace is the time of opportunity, urge and inforce the duty of a present improving of the season of Grace? In answer whereunto I offer these following considerations.