A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…

Name: A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
Author: Edmund Calamy

A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.

Edmund Calamy 1600–1666London : s.n., 1663

[652] p. · 313k words · Wing C5638 · ESTC R8646

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Mr. Matthew Newcomen His Farewell-Sermon. Preached at Dedham in Esse…: Mr. Matthew Newcomen His Farewell-Sermon. Preached at Dedham in Essex, Aug. 20.1662.Mr. Matthew Newcomen His Farewel-Sermon. Preached at Dedham in Esse…: Mr. Matthew Newcomen His Farewel-Sermon. Preached at Dedham in Essex, Aug. 20.1662.

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Thirdly, We should hold fast the Truth that we have received; because if we do not hold it fast, we do wrong God, and if we wrong our selves, and we wrong the Truth, and we wrong our posterity.

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1. It is our duty, To hold fast the Truths we have received; because if we do not, we wrong God; for Truths are more Gods, then ours: They are ours as to the use of them; but they are his, as he is the Original and Author of them. Truths are Gods Jewels; there is never a Truth of Religion, but God owns it as his; and for us to barter away any of these Truths of God it is Sacrilege, it is a robbing of God, it is a wrong to God. This is that God complains of, by the prophet, in the second of Jeremiah, the eleventh and twelfth verses. Hath a Nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their Glory, for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye Heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. The Prophet, indeed speaks of a total forsaking of God, and all his Truths; but there is, in the forsaking of every Truth, a proportion of wrong to God.

1. It is our duty, To hold fast the Truths we have received; because if we do not, we wrong God; for Truths are more Gods, then ours: They are ours as to the use of them; but they are his, as he is the Original and Author of them. Truths are Gods Jewels; there is never a Truth of Religion, but God owns it as his; and for us to barter away any of these Truths of God it is Sacrilege, it is a robbing of God, it is a wrong to God. This is that God complains of, by the prophet, in the second of Jeremiah, the eleventh and twelfth verses. Hath a Nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their Glory, for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye Heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. The Prophet, indoed speaks of a total forsaking of God, and all his Truths; but there is, in the forsaking of every Truth, a proportion of wrong to God.

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