A31961:184
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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I answer, yet still is it well with the righteous: though he meet with trouble in the world, and one wave rise• ⟨p. 55⟩upon the neck of another: yet is it well with the righteous, as appears in these following particulars:
I answer, yet still is it well with the righteous: thoug• he meet with trouble in the world, and one wave rise• ⟨p. 55⟩upon the neck of another: yet is it well with the righteous, as appears in these following particulars:
First, All the troubles that a righteous man meets with, turn to his good, and so it is well with him: That's a famous Scripture, Jer. 24. 5. Whom I have sent out of this place, into the Land of the Chaldeans, for their good. Gods own Israel were transported into Babylon among their enemies, for their good. The troubles of the righteous are only a means to purge out their sins, and that's for their good. I have read a story of one Peleus, who running at another with a sword to kill him, by accident the sword only run into his Impostume, and broke that. Thus all the evils and troubles of the righteous, do but serve to cure them of the Imposthume of pride, and to make them more humble. When the body of a Saint is afflicted, his soul that revives and flourishes in grace; like two Laurel trees that I have read of, that when one withered, the other flourished; so, when the body is afflicted, yet grace flourishes. God doth distil out of the bitterest drugs, his glory and our salvation. That that the world looks upon as a punishment, that God makes medicinal, to heal the soul. Well then may it be well with the righteous; the rod of God upon a Saint, is but only Gods pencil, whereby he draws his Image more lively upon the soul. God never stretcheth the strings of his Viol, but to make the music so much the sweeter.