A34165:1060
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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First, That if any of you have found any benefit by my poor Ministry, that if any of you have been enlightened, or awakened, or strengthened, and built up in the truth, and encouraged in the ways of holiness, by any thing that God hath put into my mouth to speak to you, let God have the praise, and let me have some room in your hearts, and prayers, however God shall deal with me.
First, That if any of you have found any benefit by my poor Ministry, that if any of you have been enlightned, or awakened, or strengthened, and built up in the truth, and encouraged in the ways of holiness, by any thing that God hath put into my mouth to speak to you, let God have the praise, and let me have some room in your hearts, and prayers, however God shall deal with me.
My second Request is, That wherein soever you have seen any failings in me, or any failings in my Ministerial duty, that you would please to pass it by, and to help me in prayer to God, for the forgiveness of them. These are my Requests of you, and that which I have to say to you, by way of Advice is much the same, with what I said to this particular Congregation the last Lords day. Take it in these particulars.
1. I would advise you and entreat you, that we may all of us lay to heart this present dispensation of God towards us, and the Nation, in this respect, that we may be sensible of it. I remember, when I was young, and my famous Predecessor, Mr. Rogers, was taken off from his Ministry in this kind, though but for a few weeks, these parts were wonderfully sensible of that providence, and laid it to heart, and were much in Humiliation and in Prayer; and I think I may say, they received an answer again within some weeks. Now Brethren, though he was worth some hundreds of us; yet now it is not the laying by of one man, but of multitudes, fifty in one place, and threescore in another, and fourscore in another, and this not by a single Bishop, but by an Act of Parliament, which makes the wound the wider, and the more uncapable of cure; and shall not we be sensible of this? shall so many precious vessels be laid by, as vessels of no pleasure, and none take it to heart?