A34165:393
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. He can do great, excellent, and useful work, is serviceable to God, if he have opportunity in business of greatest consequence: he doth not serve God only in some little and inconsiderable thing, but in his place sets himself to the work of God, doth the great work of his Majesty faithfully. The service of God to him is more easy and delightful: as to go ten miles is more easy to the healthful, then one to a sickly person, he can go through Gods service with pleasure, ease, and delight, without tiring, fainting, sitting down, or giving over.
2. He can do great, excellent, and useful work, is serviceable to God, if he have opportunity in business of greatest consequence: he doth not serve God onely in some little and inconsiderable thing, but in his place sets himself to the work of God, doth the great work of his Majesty faithfully. The service of God to him is more easie and deligtful: as to go ten miles is more easie to the healthful, then one to a sickly person, he can go through Gods service with pleasure, ease, and delight, without tiring, fainting, sitting down, or giving over.
3. He can digest the hard truths and providences of God, that are ready to puzzle, perplex, and over-set the stomach of a weak Christian, he hath laid his foundation, to which he reduces all things of difficulty, and by the help of those great truths he hath received, he can easily see through the difficulties that are yet before him. He can tell how to reconcile those things in Scripture that seem contradictions: where he meets with a difficulty, he can easily discern the cause is in himself, and that there is an undoubted way of reconciling them, though he hath not attained to it. He can easily quiet his soul under the most difficult providences, and interpret them so as is consistent with the truths of God, which must expound them: he reconciles providence with providence: and providence with Scripture, whereas a weak Christian is ready to say, A hard saying, who can bear this and that: and 'tis the difficulty of these kind of truths that makes so many turn their Religion, because not able to digest the hardest Truths of God. Cross providences makes them question Gods love, &c.