A34165:878
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.
1. It is a common fin, and therefore it is set down in the greatest latitude, the righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; that is, very few: And merciful men are taken away, no man considering; that is, very few.
2. It is a great sin, and therefore the Prophet Jeremiah in the former Chapter calls to all the beasts of the field to devour, that is, all the Enemies of the Church to destroy the Children of Israel, because they drank ⟨image 104⟩strong drink, filling themselves with merriment, and promised themselves happy days, but did not consider that the righteous were taken away from the evil to come.
2. It is a great sin, and therefore the Prophet Jeremy in the former Chapter calls to all the beasts of the field to devour, that is, all the Enemies of the Church to destroy the Children of Israel, because they drank ⟨image 104⟩strong drink, filling themselves with merriment, and promised themselves happy dayes, but did not consider that the righteous were taken away from the evil to come.
He begin with the first, that the righteous perish as well as the unrighteous.