A31961:574
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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5. Here is something more considerable, these people that lye under troubles and distresses, they are such now as have an incomparable near and dear relation unto God, they are the elect of God set apart for him, and though God hath a common propriety in, and relation to all the world, yet he hath a peculiar relation to his people, and therefore they are called his jewels, his house, his garden, and his portion▪ and indeed, as God is his peoples portion, so his people are his portion, they are those that God hath laid out a great deal for, and that he hath been at a great deal of cost to purchase. In one word they are the glory of God, they are his spouse, children, house, treasure, portion vineyard, garden, they are his all, can we look upon these now, and not look upon them as excellent.
Lastly, They are such as have the image of God set upon them, imprinted upon them, and all the good they do, it is an emanation or ray from that incomparable holiness that seed of God that is in them, you read concerning righteousness and holiness that we are renewed in it according to his image, now I remember one observes excellently upon this portion of Scripture an image doth not represent any under excellency in a man, but it doth ⟨p. 268⟩represent something that is eminent about his body. If you were to take the picture of a man, you would not take the picture of his back, or of his feet, or hands, but of his face: the people of God they discover Gods bounty indeed, in some regards as they are men, and have wit, and wealth, and worldly dignity, but this is not the image of God, the image of God is that which is the representation of […] excellency, as the power of God is the hand of God, and the wisdom• of God is the eye of God: so the holiness of God that is the […] of God, now the people of God •re his beauty, in […] they are the representation of his holiness, 2 […]. 1. 4 Be ye holy as your heavenly […] is hol•. Rom 3. 23. […] likeness to God is a likeness to him in the […] of his excellency, in having the divine nature, in having he life of od, in having the gloy of God which is grace, and there is more of God in grace then in all the works that ever God did in the world, there is much of God seen in the making of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, but in giving a man a new nature, in changing his heart, and sanctifying of him, and giving him a principle of regeneration, and the making of him become a blessed Saint, and from a cursed nature to sit him for heaven; God shows more the excellency of his name in this, then if he should have made ten thousand suck visible transient worlds as we look upon. Thus I have given you the Doctrinal explication of the words, now give me leave to make some little Application, and I would raise these following inferences.