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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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Secondly, This implies a bringing of Gods people out of this scattered condition; it is a gathering of the righteous out of this world into another, from a sinful persecuted world into a sinless glorious world, from diversity of dwelling on earth, to dwell altogether in one heaven▪ it is a gathering them out of the reach of men and devils: a gathering them not only to the gracious, but to the glorious presence of God and Christ, and to the souls of just men made perfect, and to the general assembly of the first-born, and to the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, where they shall live together, never to be scattered again. To understand this the better, let me offer three things to you, showing you that the godly ⟨p. 395⟩are gathered to God three ways: In this life, at death, and at the day of judgement.
Secondly, This implies a bringing of Gods people out of this scattered condition; it is a gathering of the righteous out of this world into another, from a sinful persecuted world into a sinlesse glorious world, from diversity of dwelling on earth, to dwell altogother in one heaven▪ it is a gathering them out of the reach of men and devils: a gathering them not only to the gracious, but to the glorious presence of God and Christ, and to the souls of just men made perfect, and to the general assembly of the first-born, and to the City of the living God, the heavenly Ierusalem, where they shall live together, never to be scattered again. To understand this the better, let me offer three things to you, shewing you that the godly ⟨p. 395⟩are gathered to God three wayes: In this life, at death, and at the day of judgement.
First, The righteous are gathered to God in this life, and that is at their first conversion; for by nature we are all Aliens and strangers to God, scattered from any union or communion with God; not only scattered from the glorious, but from the gracious presence of God. God made man at first to enjoy communion with himself; but Adam lost this by his sin, and now we are all Cains and Vagabonds, scattered from the love of God, and from union and communion with God; but when God converts any of the Elect, he gathers them home to himself; for conversion is nothing but Gods gathering them to himself in the second Adam, that were scattered from him in the first Adam; the first Adam was a root of scattering, a root of separation from God; but the second Adam was a root of union and conjunction. Christ is the head, and all the Elect are all gathered together in him,