A31961:403
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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I would put these few things to your consciences: You profess this to be your faith, you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, that he is come in the flesh; these things you profess to believe, and if you do so indeed, you are highly privileged people, blessed of God, and shall be to all Eternity. But do you not mistake? Do you believe this, that Jesus is the Christ? How came you by this belief? What account can you give of it? How were you brought over to this Belief? Did you not come to this Faith and Belief by common report? You were born to this Doctrine; You look upon it as that which is the benefit you have ⟨p. 119⟩by your being born in a Nation, and among a People that profess the Name of Christ, and this hath been instilled into you by education, and upon this account you take it: Did you ever buy this truth? It is a truth that Jesus is the Christ, how came it to be yours? Did you ever buy this truth? Buy it? I say buy it? For the very truth is, we are never able to make out a good Title to any Gospel-truth, until such time as we can say we have bought it: How? why, by serious meditation; studying the Scriptures, searching into them, seriously pondering and weighing of them, crying mightily to God, that he would manifest them to us, and encountering temptations from without, from within; being at a point willing to engage liberty and estate, and life, and all, for this truth's sake: Can you say, We have pondered, and are so fully satisfied about it, as that if all the world should come in a way of contradiction, and rise up in opposition to us, and come with fire and sword to beat us out of this truth; yet we are resolved to stick to it? Can you give such an account of your selves, that you have not taken it up on a common report, but are able to say, there hath been an inward Revelation made of these things to your souls, that there hath been a sanctified work of the Spirit upon your understandings, that you come to see into the mystery of these Gospel restimonies? Is there an habitual frame of spirit wrought in you, whereby you are carried out to close with every truth of God, and to close with it upon this account, because of a divine authority stamped upon it?
I would put these few things to your consciences: You profess this to be your faith, you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, that he is come in the flesh; these things you profess to believe, and if you do so indeed, you are highly priviledged people, blessed of God, and shall be to all Eternity. But do you not mistake? Do you believe this, that Jesus is the Christ? How came you by this belief? What account can you give of it? How were you brought over to this Belief? Did you not come to this Faith and Belief by common report? You were born to this Doctrine; You look upon it as that which is the benefit you have