A34165:563
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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John. 13.34. A New Commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
WE are this day called to a Love-feast; and nothing can be more suitable than to treat of Christian Love; Jesus Christ hath given us a great evidence of his Love to us, he bled Love at every vein; therefore we are to imitate him, and as becometh Christians, to Love one another. 'Tis a general complaint, how true I know not, That this is the great Grace that is defective among Christians. Although they pretend much Love to Christ, yet they have little Love one to another.
VVE are this day called to a Love-feast; and nothing can be more suitable than to treat of Christian Love; Jesus Christ hath given us a great evidence of his Love to us, he bled Love at every vein; therefore we are to imitate him, and as becometh Christians, to Love one another. 'Tis a general complaint, how true I know not, That this is the great Grace that is defective among Christians. Although they pretend much Love to Christ, yet they have little Love one to another.
I have in former Sermons discoursed concerning Faith, how that by Faith we must receive Christ in the Sacrament; and now I shall speak something of Love; Love is needful at a feast, it is requisite when we sit down at our own Table. I remember it is said of Augustin, He would not suffer any to feast at his Table that came in a Spirit of Rancour, and sate down in passion. Sure I am, they are not fit to be Guests at Christs Table, that come not in a Spirit of Meekness and Love. It is true, we are to eat the Passover with bitter herbs, but they must be the bitter Herbs of Repentance, not the bitter Herbs of Malice, Wrath, and Fury; we must come here with bitter Tears, not with bitter Hearts: hear what the Text saith, A New Command I give unto you, &c.