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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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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.
This Apostle was of a yielding and complying spirit, that he might thereby the better insinuate himself into the affections of men, and be more instrumental to the glory of God in the work of the Gospel, 1 Cor. 9. 22. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some; and this I do for the Gospel sake.