A31961:351
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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And if we would have God repent of the evil of punishment, we had need to make haste to repent of the evil of sin: We have been a long time in sinning, we had need be a long time in repenting. I tell you Christians, we have been these last 20 years doing nothing else but sinning against God; and, should God let us live twenty years more, it would be too little to weep for the provocations thereof. Learn to lay these and other sins so to heart, that God may never lay them to charge.
And if we would have God repent of the evill of punishment, we had need to make haste to repent of the evill of sin: We have been a long time in sinning, we had need be a long time in repenting. I tell you Christians, we have been these last 20 years doing nothing else but sinning against God; and, should God let us live twenty years more, it would be too little to weep for the provocations thereof. Learn to lay these and other sins so to heart, that God may never lay them to charge.
The third advice Christ gives here for the prevention of the removal of her Candlestick, is, Reformation, [Do the first works.] Reformation, that indeed is a fruit and evidence of sound Repentance: Repentance is nothing else but the breaking of the heart for and from sin.
I have spoken of it merely as it is the contrition of the Soul for sin; I come to speak a word of the other part, as it consists in turning to God, and doing our first works.