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The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preached…The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preach'd…
The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preached upon the decease of the Rnd Tho. Jacomb ... April 3, 1687 / by William Bates ...The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preach'd upon the decease of the Rnd Tho. Jacomb ... April 3, 1687 / by William Bates ...
London: printed for J. Robinson, 1687
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.
1. We are his Servants by Nature, he has an original and unalienable Right in us as our Creator. God to satisfy the Inquiry of Moses defines himself, I am: All the intimate and eternal Attributes of the Deity are implied in that short Title: He is the only necessary Being by his Nature, and consequently has all Perfections in himself, and is the Fountain of all Being. His Hands made us and fashioned us, he breathed into us a living Soul. All our Faculties and their Efficacy are from him. He produces this evidence of his Right in us, Remember O Jacob thou art my Servant, I have formed thee: 1The Psalmist declares, Know ye that the Lord he is God; 'tis he that made us, and not we our Selves; we are his People and Sheep of his Pasture: We owe to him an Obedience as ready & unconstrained as the meekest Creatures pay to those that ⟨p. 62⟩feed and conduct them. His Perfections qualify him to be our absolute Master, for his Will is always directed by infinite Wisdom, 'tis the Rule of Goodness, and his Benefits in making and preserving us, acquire to him a supreme Right in us. Now if there be a Spark of Reason in our Minds, 'tis impossible to have the least Shadow of doubt, that a derivative Being has a dependent Working, and is to employ his active Powers according to the Will of his Maker, as the Rule, and his Glory as the ultimate End of all.
1. We are his Servants by Nature, he has an original and unalianeble Right in us as our Creator. God to satisfy the Inquiry of Moses defines himself, I am: All the intimate and eternal Attributes of the Deity are implyed in that short Title: He is the only necessary Being by his Nature, and consequently has all Perfections in himself, and is the Fountain of all Being. His Hands made us and fashioned us, he breathed into us a living Soul. All our Faculties and their Efficacy are from him. He produces this evidence of his Right in us, Remember O Jacob thou art my Servant, I have formed thee: 1The Psalmist declares, Know ye that the Lord he is God; 'tis he that made us, and not we our Selves; we are his People and Sheep of his Pasture: We owe to him an Obedience as ready & unconstrain'd as the meekest Creatures pay to those that ⟨p. 62⟩