A34165:1090
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.
8. The strange and wonderful affections and tenderness, that God hath wrought in his children to the Gospel: What meltings and mournings, and what a spirit of prayer hath God put upon his people?
9. There are many young tender plants and buds of Grace; such in whom the spirit of God hath stirred a hungering and thirsting, and longing after the great concernments of Eternity. I would, upon these grounds, and others of the like import, hope and believe, that the Lord will not remove his everlasting Gospel, however he may correct his people for their trifling with, and slighting the glorious Gospel. I have several times thought, what a day of darkness was upon the World, in respect of sin and superstition: When Christ brought the everlasting Gospel, what a day of darkness and superstition was on the whole Earth? But you know what the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 1.21. For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God; it pleased God, by the foolishness of Preaching, to save them that believe.
When it is nearest day, then it is darkest. There may be an hour of darkness, that may be upon the Gospel, as to its liberty, purity and ⟨image 133⟩glory; and yet there may be a Sun-shining day, ready to tread on the heels of it. And so much for the resolution of these Queries.