A34165:1282
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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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.
Seventhly, If you cannot do the good you would, then do the good you can; many people are so sullen, that because they cannot do all they would do, they will do none at all. I beseech you be not of this temper; what though you cannot serve God in public, will you not therefore serve in private; why may you not do as S. Austin was bid to do; (•olle loge) take up and read? This will be a reading and praying time with you; and now you cannot hear as formerly you have done, Oh, pray more, and read more; and the less you have in public, the more you may have in private; you may read and pray, we are not forbidden that yet; let us then make use of them.
Seventhly, If you cannot do the good you would, then do the good you can; many people are so sullen, that because they cannot do all they would do, they will do none at all. I beseech you be not of this temper; what though you cannot serve God in publick, will you not therefore serve in private; why may you not do as S. Austin was bid to do; (•olle loge) take up and read? This will be a reading and praying time with you; and now you cannot hear as formerly you have done, Oh, pray more, and read more; and the less you have in publick, the more you may have in private; you may read and pray, we are not forbidden that yet; let us then make use of them.
Eighthly, My entreaty is unto you all, That you would be careful and circumspect in your conversation, (Ephes. 5.15, 16.) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Walk as becometh the Professors of the Gospel, and labour to be blameless towards God and Man. Oh, what notice will there be taken, when any Professor doth but slip aside, and do any thing amiss; it is the joy of wicked mens hearts to see it, and how diligently do they watch for it, and often wish it? We have a Proverb, That one man may better steal a Horse, than another look on: I am sure a wicked man may better commit seven sins, than a Professor one: For it is the failings, the bad lives of Professors, that makes Religion ill spoken of, and hinders many a weak soul from closing with it: Sure think they, their Religion cannot be good, their Conversations are so bad: Let us therefore be wary and careful in all our actions.