A34165:1075
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Mr. Brooks His Farewell-Sermon.Mr. Brooks His Farewel-Sermon.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. When the Gospel goes, Peace, Plenty, and Trading goes. 2 Chron. 15.3, 5. and 6. compared. Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching-Priest. Why? They had Priests, but they were Jeroboam's Priests, as you may see, chap. 13. verse 9. Have you not cast out the Priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands? so that whosoever comes to consecrate himself with a young Bullock, and seven Rams, the same may be a Priest of them that are no gods. A little business will buy a Priesthood, and so they are said to be without the true God, without a teaching-Priest, and without Law. Mark what follows, And in those times, there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the Inhabitants of the Country; and Nation was destroyed of Nation, and City of City, for God did vex them with all adversity.
1. When the Gospel goes, Peace, Plenty, and Trading goes. 2 Chron. 15.3, 5. and 6. compared. Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching-Priest. Why? They had Priests, but they were Jeroboam's Priests, as you may see, chap. 13. verse 9. Have you not cast out the Priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands? so that whosoever comes to consecrate himself with a young Bullock, and seven Rams, the same may be a Priest of them that are no gods. A little business will buy a Priesthood, and so they are said to be without the true God, without a teaching-Priest, and without Law. Mark what followes, And in those times, there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the Inhabitants of the Country; and Nation was destroyed of Nation, and City of City, for God did vex them with all adversity.
3. Safety and security goes, when the Gospel goes; so in the Text but now cited. The Ark was taken away, their strength and safety was gone. When the Jews rejected the Gospel, the Romans came and took away both their place and Nation,