A27044:117
A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful minister of Christ, Mr. John…
A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful minister of Christ, Mr. John Corbet with his true and exemplary character / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1680
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.
3. And the nearness of Body and Soul is such, that God ⟨p. 18⟩can use the Body to keep the Soul in a humble, and a safe Condition.
Use. Mistake not the Nature and meaning of the Flesh's sufferings. Grudge not at God, if he exercise thus his greatest Saints: Wonder not if the best men have sharp persecutions, pinching wants, and painful sickness, a long and sharp tormenting stone, or other such like Thorn in the Flesh.
Vse. Mistake not the Nature and meaning of the Flesh's sufferings. Grudge not at God, if he exercise thus his greatest Saints: VVonder not if the best men have sharp persecutions, pinching wants, and painful sickness, a long and sharp tormenting stone, or other such like Thorn in the Flesh.
1. It is but the Flesh, in our British part; common to Beasts: If Flesh must die and rot, why may it not first feel the Thorn.
2. We grudged not at that health and youth and ease and pleasure of it, which was the danger and temptation to the Soul, why then should we grudge at the pain which tendeth to our Cure.