A34165:1030
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…
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.
London : s.n., 1663
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2. It is a wrong done to the Truths of God, when men having received the Truth, and embracing it, hold it not fast, but cast it off, this is a wrong to the Truths of God. We say, it is less reproach to a man when he comes to my house, to shut the door against him, and not receive him in at all, than when he hath been in a while with me, I turn him out; all the world now think I find cause to be weary of him. They who have shut their hearts against the Truth, and never gave any entertainment to it, they are less injurious to it, than they that have received it, and professed it and yet turn from it. These tell the world, that the Truths of God are not so sweet, and worthy of their entertainment, as they supposed them to be.
3. This is an injury and wrong to our selves; this is a wrong to our Credit and reputation. Now, though we may make Credit our end in Religion; yet we may make use of our Credit or Reproach, as an argument to hold fast the Truth; and this i• injurious to our own Souls, John 8.31. Then Jesus said to those Jews which believed on him; If ye continue in my word, then are ye my Disciples. Indeed, here Christ doth seem to distinguish ⟨image 126⟩his disciples; he hath some that are so in name, that are not so in Deed, and he hath some that are so in Deed and in Truth; and of these he gives a character here, If ye continue in my Word. You now profess to believe my Word; but if you hold fast, and continue in my Word, then you are my Disciples indeed: But if you continue not in my Word, you have the name of Disciples only, and that will not save you. You can never be saved, unless you be indeed the Disciples of Christ; and you can never approve your selves to be the Disciples of Christ indeed, if ye continue not in the Truth, 1 Joh. 2.24. Let that therefore abide in you, which you have received and heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning, shall remain in you, ye shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. Hold fast the truth of God which you have received, then shall you continue in the Son: If the Truth of God, which you have received and believed, remain in you, and be held fast by you, ye shall continue in the love of the Father and Son, but not else; according to what he expresseth again; Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ, hath not God, therefore he cannot be saved; he that abideth in the doctrine, hath the Father and the Son. Therefore as you would be saved, hold fast the Truths you have received.