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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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3. The third thing I would have you consider, is that whosoever goeth out of God's way to avoid danger, •hall certainly meet with greater danger. Balaam went out of God's way, Numb. 22. 22. and God sent an Angel with a drawn sword, and he riding upon an Ass, vers. 26. the Angel stood in a narrow place, where was no way to go from the right hand or from the left: if his Ass had not fallen under him, he had been run through by the sword of the Angel. Jonah for fear of the King of Ni•veh went out of God's way, but he met with a mighty tempest, he met with a Whale: What do you do, when you commit sin? you make way to be cast into the eternal prison of hell: you destroy your precious souls, to save your perishing bodies.
3. The third thing I would have you consider, is that whosoever goeth out of God's way to avoid danger, •hall certainly meet with greater danger. Balaam went out of God's way, Numb. 22. 22. and God sent an Angel with a drawn sword, and he riding upon an Ass, vers. 26. the Angel stood in a narrow place, where was no way to go from the right hand or from the left: if his Ass had not fallen under him, he had been run through by the sword of the Angel. Ionah for fear of the King of Ni•veh went out of God's way, but he met with a mighty tempest, he met with a Whale: What do you do, when you commit sin? you make way to be cast into the eternal prison of hell: you destroy your precious souls, to save your perishing bodies.
Use. 2. If sin be the father and mother of all perplexity and distresses, then, I beseech you, let us above all things in the world abhor sin: all the curses of the Bible are all due only to a sinner; and all the curses not named in the Bible: for that is observable, Deut. 28. 36