A34165:1112
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. 18. Look as well on the bright side, as on the dark side of the Cloud; on the bright side of Providence, as well as on the dark side of Providence. Beloved, there is a great weakness amongst Christians, they do so pore on the black side of Providence, as that they have no heart to consider of the bright side. If you look on this black side of the Providence of God to Joseph, How terrible and amazing was it? But if you look on the bright side, his fourscore years reign; How glorious was it? If you look on the dark side of the Providence of God to David, in his first years banishment, much will arise to startle you; but if you turn to the bright side, his forty years reign in glory, How amiable was it? Look on the dark side of the Providence of God to Job; Oh! how terrible was it, in the first of Job? but compare this with the last of Job, where you have the bright side of the cloud, and there God doubles all his mercies to him. Consider the patience of Job, and the end that the Lord made with him: do not remember the beginning only, for that was the dark side; but turn to the end of him, and there was his bright side. Many sins, many temptations, and much affliction would be prevented by Christians, looking on the bright side of Providence, as well as on the dark.
Leg. 19. Keep up precious thoughts of God under the sourest, sharpest, and severest Dispensations of God to you, Psal. 22.1, 2. and 3. My God, my God, Why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not, and in the night season, and am not silent; There was the Psalmist under smart dispensations: but, what precious thoughts hath he of God under all? But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praise of Israel: though I am thus and thus afflicted, yet thou art holy. Psal. 65.5. By terrible things in Righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation.
Leg. 19. Keep up precious thoughts of God under the sowrest, sharpest, and severest Dispensations of God to you,