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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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Dr. Jacomb's Prayer at St. Martin's, Ludgate.Dr. Iacomb's Prayer at St. Martin's, Ludgate.
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.
Oh take away from every one of us this heart of stone, and give a heart of flesh; give us tender hearts, make us sensible of all our departing from thee.
Oh let us look upon Him whom we have pierced, and let us mourn that the water of penitential sorrow may •low from us; we are strangers to our selves; we do not see what a Hell there is in our natures; oh how should we put our mouths in the dust, and loath our selves, if so be there might be hope!
Oh Lord, convince us of sin; give us such a sight of sin as may make us fly to thee; give us such a sight of our own guilt that may prepare us for the grace of God; now we are stung with the fiery Serpent, help us ⟨p. 70⟩to come to Jesus Christ our hrazen Serpent; give us thy holy Spirit, to bring us out of the state of nature; oh let that God that made us creatures, make us new creatures; oh Lord, we are thine own work, but we are dead in trespasses and sins; give us grace, and speak a word to them that are dead: put out thine almighty power, and draw some sinner to Christ this day: and those that have any breathings after thee, oh thou that gavest them that desire, carry on thine own work in them: where thou hast begun a good work▪ carry it on: let sin, as the house of Saul, grow weaker and weaker, and grace, as the house of David, grow stronger and stronger. Oh increase our faith; oh Lord, in this time we do not only stand in need of grace, but of a great measure of grace; oh help us by faith to rely upon God, that thou mayst help us at last. Bless with us all thine, remember thy people from one end of the world unto the other; thy people are very low; this is a time of Jacob's troubles; the bush is burning every day, […] thou the hope of Israel, and the Saviour thereof, show thy self in mercy to these nations We bless thee for all thy mercies, that thy judgements do not seize upon us every day, that thou dost not sweep us away, that thou dost not rain fire and brimstone on England, as thou didst on Sodom; our sins cry aloud to Heaven for vengeance; God is greatly provoked every day, and it is a miracle of patience that yet thou hast not destroyed us. God can pardon the sins of the Nation at once, but we are not fit for pardon; we d not humble our selves, oh Lord, humble us. Give repentance to England from the highest to the lowest, that we may return unto thee.