A31961:599
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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For the opening of the former, the Injunction, put off ⟨p. 280⟩thy shoes, I shall not give the divers glosses and divers Interpretations which men, with more wit then weight, have endeavoured to make of this Scripture; he plain meaning is this, which is given us by Thed•et, put off thy shoes, God's scope, and drift, and i•ent hereby was, to require of Moses reverence, when he was to receive a Message of very great concernment and importance about his Church; the design of God was in this to prepare him to obedience, therefore God requires that of him then, which servants were wo•t to do when they came to their Lord and Master, to show their reverence to them, servants used to come barefoot to their Masters, to testify reverence to the commands of them on whom they waited: Nudare pedes signum reverentiae. And the putting on the shoes is in Scripture, as well as among other Writers, held as a token of domination or masterly Power. Hence some conceive, John spake of Christ as one that had his shoes on; and of himself, as one hat was unworthy to untie his shoes. And the P•phet Isaiah, by a sign of putting off his shoes, is commanded by God to put off his shoes from off his feet, and to walk naked and bare-foot; and he did so, Isa. 20. 2: which denoteth the servility of the People, in token that God's people were to be in a low condition in captivity. So we read of Mourn ners in Ezekiel, chap 21. 17. that were of a low spirit, they are said to go without shoes, or unshod. And, my brethren, on the other side, when God would show the freedom of his people, and their deliverance from servitude, he is said to put shoes on their feet, Ezech. 16. 10. And the reception of the Prodigal into his Fathers house, and the freedom and privilege his Father intended him, (according to some learned men, intended by that expression in Luk. 1. 22.) is set forth by putting on shoes upon his feet. So that I take the meaning ⟨p. 281⟩