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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 Afternoon Sermon.Dr. Iacomb's Afternoon Sermon.
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1. There are some that mind nothing but to please themselves, to promote their own interest, to love their ⟨p. 85⟩own ease, to indulge themselves in their own carnal delights; but they never mind the good of others, or the pleasing of God; the Apostle speaks of and against these, Rom. 15. 1, 2, 3.
2. There are others that look no further than the pleasing of men; if they can but keep fair with men, and shun the displeasure of men, that is all they aim at: but, my Brethren, what a poor thing is it to please man, and displease God? what a poor thing is it to have Man to be our Friend, and God to be our Enemy? to have the smiles of a poor dying perishing Worm, and to lye under the frowns of the great God?
Indeed, there is a good pleasing of men, to please them for their Edification, as the Apostle speaks, Rom. 15. 2. and so the Apostle speaks of himself, 1 Cor. 10. 32. Even as I please all men in all things, that is, in all things that are of an indifferent nature, not simply civil, nor simply good, in all such things.