A31961:106
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.
London : s.n., 1662
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Mr. Watson's Prayer at Walbrook.
O Lord God, All our springs are in thee. It is good for us to draw •igh to thee through Jesus Christ; Thou art all fullness, the quintessence of all sweetness, the Centre of all blessedness; thou art the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in him our Father, thou art our light, thou givest us these blessed opportunities of enjoying communion with thy self, God blessed for ever.
O Lord God, All our springs are in thee. It is good for us to draw •igh to thee through Iesus Christ; Thou art all fulness, the quintessence of all sweetness, the Center of all blessedness; thou art the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, and in him our Father, thou art our light, thou givest us these blessed opportunities of enjoying communion with thy self, God blessed for ever.
These mercies are forfeited mercies, we have abused the blessings of thy house, we have grieved thy blessed spirit; therefore it is just with thee to deprive us of these comforts, and to make us know the worth of these mercies by the want of them.
Lord, we desire to judge our selves, that we may not be condemned with the world; righteous art thou, O Lord, and just in all thy judgements; we confess, we are unworthy to have any converse with so holy a God; we are polluted dust and ashes, not worthy to tread thy Courts, and it is of thy mercy that we are not consumed. How often have we plucked fruit from the forbidden tree? We have sinned presumptuously; against the clearest Light, and the dearest Love always have we sinned; thy footsteps have dropped fatness: thou hast shown mercy to us; but the better thou hast been to us, the worse we have been to thee: thou hast loaded us with thy mercies, and we have wearied thee with our sins; when we look into our selves, oh the poison of our natures; what ever the Leper did touch, was unclean; thus do we by our spiritual leprosy infect our Holy things; our Prayers had need have pardon, and our tears had need have the blood of sprinkling to wash them; how vain are our Vows? how sensual are our affections We confess, we are untuned and unstrung for every Holy action; we are never out of tune to sin, but always out of tune to pray: we give the world our male affections, and our strongest desires; we should use this world as if we used it not, and alas we pray as if we prayed not, and serve thee as if we served thee not; there is not that reverence, nor that devotion, nor that activeness of saith that there should be. Lord, if thou shouldest say, Thou wouldst pardon all our sins to this time, only judge us for this prayer, we unto us: what breathing of unbelief and hypocrisy is there now, when we approach unto thee we pray thee pardon us for Christs sake; Who can tell how ot he dot offend? we can as well reckon the drops of the Ocean, as number […] sins: we have filled the number of the Nations sins, but have not fill thy bottle with our tears. This is that that doth exceedingly aggravate […] sins, that we cannot mourn for sin; we can grieve for our losses, but […]