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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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That a godly man▪ one truly regenerated, doth see an extraordinary beauty, worth, and excellency in the people of God in the bitterest of all persecutions and troubles that doth befall them, or that a godly man, a gracious heart, one that hath spiritual spectacles doth see an excellency and worth in the people of God in the midst of all trouble and persecution that can hefall them. I know you judge this to be both a necessary and seasonable point▪ In the prosecution of it, I shall first handle it Doctrinally, and then come to those profitable and useful Improvements of it, by way of Application, that the Point deserves.
That a godly man▪ one truly regenerated, doth see an extraordinary beauty, worth, and excellency in the people of God in the bitterest of all persecutions and troubles that doth b•fall th•m, or that a godly man, a gracious heart, one that hath spiritual spectacles doth see an excellency and worth in the people of God in the midst of all trouble and persecution that can hefall them. I know you judge this to be both a necessary and seasonable point▪ In the prosecution of it, I shall first handle it Doctrinally, and then come to those profitable and useful Improvements of it, by way of Application, that the Point deserves.
1. For the Doctrinal explication of it, two things must be spoken to.
1. Wherein the high esteem of a gracious heart doth appear, wherein it doth discover it self to the Saints and People of God in their sufferings. 2. Whence it is, and how it comes to pass, that godly men have this high and honourable esteem of the Saints and People of God in this trouble and distress of theirs.