A34165:1217
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.
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.
So much for the excellency of the Gospel, viz. The excellency of the power, &c. I come to the second.
2. The Author of it. 1. Positively, it is of God. And 2. Negatively, it is not of us.
First, Positively, it is of God, and that in all the considerations of it, in the full extent of it, it is of God. So the Ministerial gifts, the performances of it, and the success of it, are all from God.
First, Ministerial gifts are from God, it is he that makes us able Ministers of the New Testament; There are (saith the Apostle Paul) diversity of gifts; to one is given the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge, by the same spirit, &c. 1 Cor. 12.4, 5, 6. It is God that bestows every good gift.