A34165:903
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.
First, they pray down a blessing on the place where they come. Secondly, they come as a blessing by their holy life and conversation, that is a Load-stone to draw others to holiness. Thirdly, they come as a blessing, by their holy advice and counsel that they give to the place where they come.
Nay fourthly, their very presence is a blessing; as long as Lot was in Sodom, Sodom could not be destroyed; so long as Paul was in the ship, the 300 could not be drowned. So that the godly come as a blessing wherever they are scattered, but the wicked are as chaff scattered by the wind, and they are scattered as the dust of the earth: You know when the dust is scattered, ⟨image 106⟩it gets into mens eyes and blinds them; and falls upon their clothes, and sullies them; so the wicked, wherever they are scattered, they defile the place where they are scattered. The godly are as Planets, that wander & move from one part of Heaven to another, carrying light to the world.
Nay fourthly, their very presence is a blessing; as long as Lot was in Sodom, Sodom could not be destroyed; so long as Paul was in the ship, the 300 could not be drowned. So that the godly come as a blessing wherever they are scattered, but the wicked are as chaff scattered by the wind, and they are scattered as the dust of the earth: You know when the dust is scattered, ⟨image 106⟩it gets into mens eyes and blinds them; and falls upon their cloaths, and sullies them; so the wicked, wherever they are scattered, they defile the place where they are scattered. The godly are as Planets, that wander & move from one part of Heaven to another, carrying light to the world.