A31961:837
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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Rule 2.
Be very well rooted and established in the faith that hath been delivered to you. I observe it's one of the great reasons why Christians so easily let go the profession they have made, is, because they were never well built upon it, nor established in it. There are many Christians that through their own itching ears, heaping up Teachers to themselves, have never been rooted or established in the truth; the Lord pity them and keep them this day: Many Christians that have attended to establishing means, yet never seriously considered, nor laid things to their heart, but are like those the Apostle speaks of, Heb. 5. 12. that had need to learn the first Oracles of God. How many among us profess with the highest, but have ⟨p. 376⟩little ground for their faith? only (with the Jews) the Traditions of the Elders, the custom of the place, Education, and because such a party of men say so, because no body denies it, because Ministers commonly preached it; but to take any solid and serious ground, they are yet to seek. 'Tis not wi•h the things of God as with other Arts, as Logic, Rhetoric, Astronomy; in these Arts the principle is presupposed to be proved; no man goes about to prove there is Reason, that there is Number, that there are Heavenly bodies, because sense and experience shows it: But 'tis quite otherwise in the things of God: for you are not only to run away with the notion, that there is a God, that this God is one, and that these are his word and his works; but you are to know this by experience▪ because the knowledge of these things comes in by infusion, by faith, by a belief that God is: For by Faith we believe the worlds were made by the word of God, Heb. 11. 2, 3. It is that therefore I would press you to, that you would labour for an established spirit: Do not only hear the things of God, but see them; the first will but blind you, or at best leave you at great uncertainties; the last will settle you. What was the reason of the holy Apostles zeal when they were under the greatest threatenings of the High Priests; and were forbid to speak in the name of Christ, and to speak of Justification by faith, and the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, and forgiveness of sins by him? (things that are furthest remote from sense and reason) the Apostle will tell you,