A31961:347
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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as if no matter, that be full of darkness, so the heart be for God. 16. The unsuitableness of our conversations to the Gospel of Christ: 'Tis the only thing the Apostle puts the Philippians in mind of, and commits to their care, Phil. 1. 27. And truly, in these unhappy days, it hath been the only thing men have neglected and despised. How little care, that our conversations should honour the Gospel? &c. ⟨p. 99⟩17. Our living by sense, and not by faith. Surely (my Brethren) among all the sins in England that the people of God have cause to be humbled for, there is not any whereby we have more provoked God, than by that sin of Unbelief. Murmuring, and Infidelity, have been our two great sins, for which, it is the wonder of Gods mercy that he hath not caused our carcasses to fall in the wilderness: He may take up that complaint of us, that he did of Israel, Numb. 14. 22. Because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; surely they shall not see the land, &c. And this is the lamentation we may take up, that truly to this very day we have not faith enough to carry us from one miracle to another, from one deliverance to another, from one salvation to another: let one deliverance pass over our head, and no sooner one wave rises higher than another, but we are ready to cry out with Peter, Lord save m•, I perish: and well were it, if our fears did issue into tears and cries after Christ: we rather are ready to cry out, as those in Ezek. 37. 11. Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, we are cut off for our parts. We are a people that never knew how to honour God in any distress God hath brought us into; never learnt to glorify God by believing: if we cannot see him, we cannot believe him: surely that which God hath done for us, in such a succession of miracles, it might well at least have been food for our faith during our sojourning: In our pilgrimage we might have learned by all that we have seen to believe God: we might have made experience to be the food of our faith: and upon all the providences of Divine Power, Wisdom, and Goodness, we might have discoursed