A34165:1323
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.
1. There must be an Object that must be seen. And oh! what visible Objects are there in the hearts of men? Man is called a little World, a Compendium of the whole World: The heart of man, is the Man. The heart of man, is like the Ark of Noah, which contains all sorts, all kinds of clean and unclean Beasts: 'Tis an Epitome of Heaven and Hell What is there in the heart of man? Who but God can fathom the depth of it? There are more Objects in the hearts of men, than Stars in Heaven, or drops in the Ocean.
1. There must be an Object that must be seen. And oh! what visible Objects are there in the hearts of men? Man is called a little World, a Compendium of the whole World: The heart of man, is the Man. The heart of man, is like the Ark of Noah, which contains all sorts, all kindes of clean and unclean Beasts: 'Tis an Epitomy of Heaven and Hell What is there in the heart of man? Who but God can fathom the depth of it? There are more Objects in the hearts of men, than Stars in Heaven, or drops in the Ocean.
2. There must be light to actuate this Object, if it were dark, we could never see it. There must be light both to actuate the eye and object. Now this light that actuates the eye and object, 'tis either the natural light, the light of Nature, the light of Conscience, the light of common Illumination, the light of the Word, or the light of the Spirit of God: By all these Lights we come to look into the Looking-glass, our Hearts.
3. There must be an Irradiation from the Object, i. e. a beaming forth from that Object, some Species or Idea's that carries the object to the eye, and clearly makes out to the sense what that Object is, this beaming is by action from the heart; mark it (for it may be as necessary truth as was preached among you) that look what the Stream is to the Fountain, what the Beam to the Sun, that the action is to the heart, whether the act be manent, or transient; whether Internal in thought, purpose, election, affection, in joy, in love, in fear: Or External, in the life, in the practice, and in the conversation. So that look as a puddle Stream always declares a corrupt Fountain, so all your humble, holy, faithful thoughts speak a clear spiritual heart within; a holy conversation speaks