A34165:386
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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16. It should humble you the more, that you have been so long, so many years in the School of Christ, and love God, &c. no better: Should not you in this apprenticeship have learned better your Religion, and been teachers of others, when perhaps, if in the principles you are assaulted, you will show your weakness as soon as any? May not Christ say, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you known, lived, &c. no better? reached no higher, attained no further? weaklings still? Nay, consider in this time what advantage you have had for growth? A tree planted on a barren Wilderness may not grow so much as in a fruitful place; but you have had the plenty and power of the Ordinances of God, the choicest of the means and helps of salvation.
16. It should humble you the more, that you have been so long, so many years in the School of Christ, and love God, &c. no better: Should not you in this apprentiship have learned better your Religion, and been teachers of others, when perhaps, if in the principles you are assaulted, you will shew your weakness as soon as any? May not Christ say, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you known, lived, &c. no better? reached no higher, attained no further? weaklings still? Nay, confider in this time what advantage you have had for growth? A tree planted on a barren Wilderness may not grow so much as in a fruitful place; but you have had the plenty and power of the Ordinances of God, the choicest of the means and helps of salvation.
17. Consider, the nature of true Grace tends to this: will you cross the nature of it? shall we be such weaklings in Religion, which cross so the nature of Grace? for Grace the more it is exercised, the more it increases.
17. Consider, the nature of true Grace tends to this: will you cross the nature of it? shall we be such weaklings in Religion, which cross so the nature of Grace? for Grace the more it is exercised, the more it encreases.