A34165:614
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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Secondly, Get good Books into your houses, when you have not the Spring near to you, then get water into your Cisterns: So when you have nor that wholesome Preaching that you desire, good Books are Cisterns that holds the waters of life in them to refresh you. When Davids natural heat was taken away, they covered him with warm clothes. 1 Kings 1. So when you find a chilness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply your selves with warm clothes, get those good Books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.
Secondly, Get good Books into your houses, when you have not the Spring near to you, then get water into your Cisterns: So when you have nor that wholsom Preaching that you desire, good Books are Cisterns that holds the waters of life in them to refresh you. When Davids natural heat was taken away, they covered him with warm cloaths. 1 Kings 1. So when you find a chilness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply your selves with warm cloaths, get those good Books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.
Thirdly, Have a care of your Company, take heed of unnecessary familiarity with sinners, we cannot catch health from another, but we may soon catch a disease; the disease of sin is very catching: I would be as fraid of coming among the wicked, as among those that have the plague. Psal. 106.35. They were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works: If we cannot make others better, let us have a care that they make not us worse: Lot was a miracle, he kept fresh in Sodoms salt water. My beloved, take heed of the occasions of sin, evil company is an occasion of sin. The Nazarites in the old Law, as they might drink no wine, so they were forbidden grapes, whereof the wine was made, as you read in Num. 6. to teach us, that all occasions of sin must be avoided; evil company is belluo animatrum, the Devils draw-net, by which he draws millions to Hell: how many families, and how many souls have been ruined and undone in this City by evil company? many there are that go from a play-house to a Whore-house, and from a Tavern to Tyburn.