A34165:1159
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. Collins his Farewell-Sermon.Mr. Collins 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.
Hence it is that poor silly women, that in respect of their Imbecility and Infirmity of Sex, the terrors of the fire and faggot, might have been such to have brought them to Apostasy, yet they confounded the great Doctors and Rabbis when they were brought before them; they were able to burn, though they could not dispute; they beheld things that were invisible. It's an excellent thing not to take up the Word upon notion, upon opinion, but to have an established heart through Grace. I shall direct you in two words.
Hence it is that poor silly women, that in respect of their Imbecillity and Infirmity of Sex, the terrours of the fire and faggot, might have been such to have brought them to Apostacy, yet they confounded the great Doctors and Rabbies when they were brought before them; they were able to burn, though they could not dispute; they beheld things that were invisible. It's an excellent thing not to take up the Word upon notion, upon opinion, but to have an established heart through Grace. I shall direct you in two words.
1. Get the Lord by Prayer to teach you every truth; what Jesus Christ teaches once, is everlastingly taught; no word is abiding, but what the Lord Jesus teaches himself. Look as it is with Satan, when he comes to seduce men from the truth, he will present such a fine notion without, and commonly he darts in some dazzling light within, so that you never knew a Heretic take up a false opinion, but it was with a marvellous deal of sweetness and comfort: so when the Lord Christ teacheth by his Spirit, he comes with that light, that sweetness, savour, and relish of truth, as will be impossible for you to let it go: Hence when Christ would confute the Pharisees, who had the witness of his Father in his work, he saith, Joh. 5.37. Ye have neither heard his •oice at any time, nor seen his shape: It's an excellent thing to see the shape and hear the voice of God. 2. Be well rooted upon Christ, or else you will never be established in any truth of Christ: If you miss the Lord Jesus by the Grace of Faith: you will never h•ld fast the Doctrine of Faith: you are built upon the Doctrine of the Apostles, (not their Persons) upon which the Lord Jesus is the Corner-stone: he that does not know Jesus Christ himself, will certainly lose his Faith: What's the reason the stony ground in time of Persecution fell away? why, they had not root, they were not planted upon the Lord Jesus.