A34165:1162
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.
Rule 4. Fourthly, Guard all the truths of God, and those ways of God that have been taught you; guard them strongly, especially truths that are most material and fundamental: for leading truths are like Captains of Armies, if they be routed, the whole rout follows them. There is great opposition that will be made against your faith. The whole power of darkness, of Antichrist, of his seducing spirits, likely and probably enough, will overspread the whole face of Christianity once more: for she must sit as a Lady, before she be desolate and forsaken for ever. The Apostle bids you beware of Dogs, beware of the Concision, beware of Evil workers, guard your selves against them, guard the truths you have learned, by Argument, by Scripture, by Reason, that you may have wherewithal to confute them by the word of truth mightily, out of the Scripture, as the Apostle did.
Rule 4. Fourthly, Guard all the truths of God, and those wayes of God that have been taught you; guard them strongly, especially truths that are most material and fundamental: for leading truths are like Captains of Armies, if they be routed, the whole rout follows them. There is great opposition that will be made against your faith. The whole power of darkness, of Antichrist, of his seducing spirits, likely and probably enou•h, will overspread the whole face of Christianity once more: for she must sit as a Lady, before she be desolate and forsaken for ever. The Apostle bids you beware of Dogs, beware of the Concision, beware of Evil workers, guard your selves against them, guard the truths you have learned, by Argument, by Scripture, by Reason, that you may have wherewithal to confute them by the word of truth mightily, out of the Scripture, as the Apostle did.
Three things you are to guard against.
1. Your own deceitfulness, especially in a rash and sudden forsaking of those ways that have been taught, and the profession you have taken up; for Christians would never be so mad to Apostatize, were they but seriously deliberate, about the weight of them,