A34165:1110
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.
Leg. 16. Never put off your Consciences with any plea, or with any argument, that you dare not stand by in the great day of your account. It's dreadful to consider, how many in these days put off their conscience. We did this and that for our families, they would have else perished: I have complied thus, and wronged my conscience thus, for this and that concernment. Will a man stand by this argument, when he comes before Jesus Christ at the last day? Because of the Souls of men, many plead this or that. Christ doth not stand in need of indirect ways to save Souls, he hath ways enough to bring in Souls to himself.
Leg. 16. Never put off your Consciences with any plea, or with any argument, that you dare not stand by in the great day of your account. It's dreadful to consider, how many in these dayes put off their conscience. We did this and that for our families, they would have else perished: I have complied thus, and wronged my conscience thus, for this and that concernment. Will a man stand by this argument, when he comes before Jesus Christ at the last day? Because of the Souls of men, many plead this or that. Christ doth not stand in need of indirect wayes to save Souls, he hath ways enough to bring in Souls to himself.
Leg. 17. Eye more, mind more, and lay to heart more, the Spiritual and Internal workings of God in your Souls, than the External Providences of God in the World. Beloved, GOD looks that we should consider the operations of his hand; and the despising the works of his hands is so provoking to him, that he threatens them to lead them into Captivity, for not considering of them. But above all, look to the work that God is carrying on in your Souls: not a Soul, but he is carrying on some work or other in it, either blinding or enlightening, bettering or wors• ing; and therefore look to what God is doing in thy Soul. All the motions ⟨image 135⟩of God within you are steps to eternity, and every soul shall be blessed or cursed, saved or lost, to all eternity; not according to outward dispensation, but according to the inward operations of God in your Souls. Observe, what humbling work, reforming work, sanctifying work, he is about in thy spirit, what he is doing in that little world within. If God should carry on never so glorious a work in the world, as a Conquest of Nations to Christ; what would it advantage thee, if Sin, Satan, and the World should triumph in thy Soul, and carry the day there?