A34165:747
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.
2. A serious Exhortation, and in it first, the Matter of the Duty, stand, and stand it out, and stand fast. Secondly, the Manner. First, So stand, so as you have stood, stand fast. Second, In the Lord, stand so, and stand in the Lord, in the Lords strength, and in the Lords cause; to stand in your own strength, would be the ready way to fall, and to stand in your own cause, for your own fancy, would be the ready way to expose your selves to all manner of Temptations: Therefore my brethren, dearly Beloved in the Lord, stand, and so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly Beloved.
In the next place, by way of Observation from the words; and if there be any wicked Catchers here, let them know, that I shall speak no ⟨image 86⟩more then I shall draw from, and is the mind of my Text; I would not give occasion to be a greater sufferer then I am like to be. But for the words.
First, For the Melting Compellation, my Brethren, my dearly Beloved. Paul was an Apostle, and an high Officer in the Church of God, and he writ unto the Philippians, to all the Philippians, to the poorest of them; and see how he bespeaks himself to them, (my Brethren) from hence take this observation, That the highest Officers in the Church of Christ, though they are indeed by Office Rulers over them, yet by Relation, they are no more then Brethren to the meanest Saint. Here we have no such Rabbis, to whom we must swear, because they say we must swear it. Paul calls them Brethren, and so writes to them, Gal. 1.2. and James a Scriptural Officer, one of the highest Apostles Christ ever made; saith, Hearken my beloved Brethren,