A34165:1054
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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4. If you would be enabled to hold fast the truths you have heard, and received, then get a valuation and esteem of the truths of God. Such as David had, Psal. 119.72. The Law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of Gold and Silver. Better in it self; all the Gold and Silver in the world, all the riches in the world, will never do a man so much good as that; and better in my estimation, I value it more, I had rather part with all, than with the Word. A man that is of this mind, he will hold fast the truth: Oh! that there were such a heart in every one of you, as to say, The words of Gods mouth, they are better than estate, and better than liberty, and better than Wife and Children; if there were such a heart in us, this would enable us to hold fast the truth of God, and part with all rather than them.
5. If you would hold fast the truth that you have received and heard, then make conscience to practice according to what you know; make conscience to obey the truths of God: obedience is the sinew of constancy. Christ saith, Luk. 6.48. Whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and doth them, he is like a man which built his house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a Rock; and when the flood arose, and the streams beat vehemently upon that house, it could not shake it. Mark ye it could not be shaken: the conscionable practical hearer, and receiver of the truth of ⟨image 128⟩God, he is the man that is like to hold out, and to hold fast the Word; he that hath been a careless Hearer, and never made conscience to hear for obedience and practice, he is blown over presently; it is a sad passage I have met with in that Reverend man, M. Hildersham, and to me it seems to have much weight in it; What hopes, says he, can we have of many of our Hearers in England, who are willing to give the Word a hearing, and outwardly profess it? but what hope can we have, but that if a time of trial come, they will turn Papists, or profane, or any thing; for they never loved the Word when they heard it; and they never obeyed the Word, but lived in known sins; they take up a form of godliness, and hate the power of it; what hope, but that if a time of trial come, these will fall from the truth?