A34165:1226
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
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2. But in the second place, if you look upon the words reflexively, ⟨image 153⟩or as having their connection to the words going before, and so agree and hold together, and thus you may read them: Therefore is this Treasure in Earthen Vessels, that the excellency of the power may be acknowledged to be of God, and not of us: If it were in Angels, or had we never so strong bodies, yet the excellency of the power of God would not be so clearly seen, as it is now, being laid up in poor frail Vessels: Here is the power of God, here is the lustre and glory of God most manifested; for so much the more apparently it will be seen to be from God, by how much the weaker the instrument is that is employed by God. Therefore if any thing doth act beyond its own power, it must have some foreign powers for the producing such and such acts: therefore when we see any great matter done by poor frail and contemptible persons of Earthen Vessels, this doth plainly show the excellency of the power to be of God, and not of Man; therefore look from Man to God, it is God that doth these things; We should over-look Earthen Vessels; we should (I say) over-look men that are these Earthen Vessels, and look to God that makes the Ministry powerful in such conveyances as these are.
2. But in the second place, if you look upon the words reflexively, ⟨image 153⟩or as having their connexion to the words going before, and so agree and hold together, and thus you may read them: Therefore is this Treasure in Earthen Vessels, that the excellency of the power may be acknowledged to be of God, and not of us: If it were in Angels, or had we never so strong bodies, yet the excellency of the power of God would not be so clearly seen, as it is now, being laid up in poor frail Vessels: Here is the power of God, here is the lustre and glory of God most manifested; for so much the more apparently it will be seen to be from God, by how much the weaker the instrument is that is employed by God. Therefore if any thing doth act beyond its own power, it must have some foreign powers for the producing such and such acts: therefore when we see any great matter done by poor frail and contemptible persons of Earthen Vessels, this doth plainly shew the excellency of the power to be of God, and not of Man; therefore look from Man to God, it is God that doth these things; We should over-look Earthen Vessels; we should (I say) over-look men that are these Earthen Vessels, and look to God that makes the Ministry powerful in such conveyances as these are.