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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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11. Give not way to a formal, heartless, seeming Religiousness, Customariness, without the life: but keep your souls in a continual seriousness and awakedness about God, Immortality, and your great Concernments. If one duty be dead, take heed lest that incline you to a deadness in another, and so grow to a customary deadness▪ Take heed of spiritual slothfulness, that makes you keep your hands in your bosom, when you should be doing for your souls: stir up to, and in, duty, when you have but little time for life eternal: do not pray as if you prayed not, or hear as though you heard not: but, when upon duty, doing Gods service, do it with all the seriousness and vigour you can; To grow lazy and negligent is the declining way: Use such considerations as may stir you up, Rom. 12. 11. Tit. 2. 14.
11. Give not way to a formal, heartless, seeming Religiousness, Customariness, without the life: but keep your souls in a continual seriousness and awakedness about God, Immortality, and your great Concernments. If one duty be dead, take heed lest that incline you to a deadness in another, and so grow to a customary deadness▪ Take heed of spiritual slothfulness, that makes you keep your hands in your bosom, when you should be doing for your souls: stir up to, and in, duty, when you have but little time for life eternal: do not pray as if you prayed not, or hear as though you heard not: but, when upon duty, doing Gods service, do it with all the seriousness and vigour you can; To grow lazie and negligent is the declining way: Use such considerations as may stir you up, Rom. 12. 11. Tit. 2. 14.
12. Remember always the worth of time, and greatness of your work, and therefore so value time, as not negligently or slothfully to lose a