A31961:425
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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How many Idols and Idolaters are there? I might tell you, the Covetous person […] an Idolater, the Voluptuous person; and the Self▪justit•ary sets up his own Righteousness, and Idolizeth that: But I say this, there are Idols among Christians; Papists hold forth the Name of Christ; but yet what woeful Idolatry there is among them? There was the Dragon-worship in the time of the Heathens, and in the room of that, there is come up the Beast-worship, and of that Worship the generality of the world runs upon; and it concerns us to keep from Popish Idolatry, it being the grossest Idolatry that ever was, because there is the fairest pretence of worshipping JESUS, and yet they turn him into an Idol. What else means their worshipping and bowing to Images, their breaden gods, and the like? Oh! therefore it concerns us to keep our selves from Idols; And there is a Scripture, if it were but well studied, would cause trembling of Heart, and make all that have any care of their Souls to look about them; that Scripture I refer you to, it is in Revel. 13. compared with the 20th. In Revel. 13. 11. whereas before there was Dragon-worship, it is said here, I beheld another Beast coming out of the Earth, and he had two Horns like a Lamb, and he spake as a Dragon, and he exerciseth all the Power of the first Beast before him, and causeth ⟨p. 133⟩the Earth, and them that dwell therein, to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed: now look at the 8. verse, saith he, And all the dwellers upon the Earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of life, of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Oh! it is a terrible word, and that that should make us to fear and tremble, lest in any kind we should be drawn into the Worship of the Beast; for as many as were not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb, they were drawn into the Worship of the Beast. This is that that should make us keep our selves from Idols, from whatsoever hath but so much as a Tincture of Superstition and Idolatry; and the rather, considering that other Scripture in the 20th. of the Revelation, and the last verse, And whosoever was not found written in the Book of life, was cast into the lake of fire; All that are not written in the Lambs Book of life, are prevailed to perform the worship with the Beast; and not being writ there, must be tumbled into the Lake for ever.