A34165:1297
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.
First, Before hearing; That holy duty of Hearing calls aloud for holy preparations so much at least as settles the bent of the heart Heaven-ward: so much at least as makes us humble, and hunger after spiritual Manna: so much at least as raises the heart into a posture of expedition of some divine and spiritual good from God.
Secondly, A right demeanour in, or at hearing; which consists,
First, The Hearer ought to propound to himself spiritual and right ends, and that
1. Negatively, This must not be the Hearer's end; to come and judge either the Word, or the Minister of it: nor, 2. To come and hear things that will tickle his fancy; if he desire ⟨image 166⟩that, let them go to those sinks of all Wickedness, Play-houses: nor, 3. Must we propose this our end, merely to better our parts: nor, 4. Merely to know, much less merely to be known, that it should be said of us, that we have been at the Morning-Exercise every day this month; But our end should be to profit by what we hear,