A31961:594
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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2. Consider the cruelty of their opposition: that is set forth and represented by the fire that burned in the Bush. Afflictions, and especially persecuting o•es, are in Scripture frequently set out by fire, as, The fiery trial, the fire of Affliction. This doth not only discover the rage and cruelty of men, but also the benefit and utility that comes to the Church by Affliction; for the Afflictions of the Church are not as consuming, but trying fire; as the fire in a Furnace is to Gold, it only takes away the dross; nor like the fire of hell, which hath heat without light, but the School of persecution hath light as well ⟨p. 278⟩as heat, the School of affliction is the School▪ of teaching, God teacheth his Saints excellent Lessons by the light of that fire, But I pass by that, I might now insist upon the third thing.—
2. Consider the cruelty of their opposition: that is set forth and •epresented by the fire that burned in the Bush. Afflictions, and especially persecuting o•es, are in Scriptu•e f•equently set out by fire, as, The fiery tryal, the fire of Affliction. This doth not onely discover the rage and cruelty of men, but also the benefit and utility that comes to the Church by Affliction; for the Afflictions of the Church are not as consuming, but trying fire; as the fire in a Furnace is to Gold, it only takes away the dross; nor like the fire of hel, which hath heat without light, but the School of persecution hath light as well ⟨p. 278⟩as heat, the School of affliction is the School▪ of teaching, God teacheth his Saints excellent Lessons by the light of that fire, But I passe by that, I might now insist upon the third thing.—