A34165:783
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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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.
First, by way of Lamentation.
1. Over our own Souls. 2. Over hundreds of Congregations.
Lord, we do say hundreds, nay thousands of Congregations, that are this day, though they do not accompany us in person, yet mingling tears with us, and especially as I hear in the West of England.
1. Over our hearts. We must stand; that is our Duty. Oh how should it cause us to lye low! by reason of the instability of our hearts, and their cursed declining from the true foundation every day. Alas Beloved, this is that God complains of, They are a Generation whose spirit is not steadfast with God; and therefore we have very much reason to complain of it: Oh what an unsettled people have we been! to day we have been apt to cry Hosanna', Hosanna, to the son of David: to morrow our note is changed, crucify him, crucify him, give us Barnabas: to day the Lord is God, to morrow Baal: any thing is God, provided we may keep our Estates. Oh Lord! what wilt thou do with such a people as this? certainly it is a lamentation, and ought to be a lamentation, Believe it beloved, I can now count seven years, if not something more, wherein I have most clearly expected the days I now see; no way but the severest ways to be taken with such a false people as we have been. Judge in your own thoughts, whether we have been true to God or man, to Saints or sinners, to the Church of God at home or abroad; whether or no this be not matter of Lamentation? 2. With respect to our Congregations. (It is not against the Law yet to call them our Congregations) This I confess, I can rather weep than speak too; I cannot speak my heart is too big for my head here. Lord, is it the duty of people, of saints to stand, to be steadfast? how then should we mourn over their poor souls, that because their Pillars are taken away, must needs for ought we know Fall, unless thou dost support them: what Lord, dost thou complain of a flock of sheep that are scattered? there is no wonder in it, their Shepherd is gone. Do you look on it as a strange thing, to see a poor Ship tossed here and there in the Sea, when her Pilot is destroyed? why mothers, is it a strange thing for your children to fall, and knock their arms, legs, their brains out? why their mother is taken