A31961:527
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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Mr. Jenkins's Prayer at Christ-Church, July 13. 1662.
Mr. Jenkins's Prayer at Christ-Church, Iuly 13. 1662.
Most blessed and holy Lord God, thou art infinitely beyond our apprehensions, who wast infinitely spy before the world was made, and wantest none o• thy […], […] their services […] make thee more excellent, t•en thou art in thy self: we d•ily w•nt thee, thou never wantest us, thou a […] to make use of Ordinance•, Ministers, Sabbaths, as thy Institutions to accomplish […] bring about the great work of thy glory and ma•s Salvation, yet Lord thou dost not need them, thy Spirit is not made efficacious by these things, but it is that that makes these things […], though thou art pleased to tie us to them, when we may […] them and duly en•y them yet thou dost not tie thy self to them: we desire in these our addresses t• eye the happiness of Saints that depends •on him that depends upon none. We are here in thy presence by thy goodness and grace? O• whether should we go but to thee, and how should we come but by thee, o• strengthen our saith, kill ou• corruptions inflame our love, give us assurance of thy love to our souls: o• that God would teach us •ow to pray, that we may tast• and se• how •ood the Lord is t i day, that ou souls may be filled […] with marrow, the we may by ou own experience be able to say, it is good fo us to […] […] o God, and that a day in thy house is better thn a thousand elsewhere: that there may be a commion between us and God, let there be a diunion between us and si: we confess we brought sin enough into the world with s, to cause the to withdraw thy bleed self from us, and to cast such unprofitable servants as we are into utter darkss, we have bin […] long time in thy school, and ye how dull are […] we might have bin teachers of others, but we need our selves be taught wich ae the fist Principles of the Oracles of God, we lve less en we know, and we do less then we love, we have neither done […] good, nor received that good which we should, or might have done and received: we have been trees that have cumbered the […] i thy Orchard, but we have brought foth no fruit. o unto us that we have not known the day of our visitation; many of us have one foot in the grave, and yet we have lived without God in the wold, we are wise in every thing, but in our own salvation; we live as if ell were a privilege: those of us that have some knowledge of thee, have great cause to repent that we have walked so unworthily of God: