A34165:980
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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1. What we were before Faith: What were we before Christ wa• preached, and before we believed? What were we? Why, much worse than if we had not been: considered in our case and state, it is better not to be at all, than to be a sinner: it were better not to be a people, than not to be the people of God. Now, What were we before Faith? Why, truly, we were not a people: so the Scripture tells you, They that were not a people, are now the people of God; so that, if we were not the people of God, we are, as if we were not a people.
We were; What were we before Faith? Dark. We were the darkness it self, as the Apostles expression is, in Ephes. 5.8. saith he, Ye were sometimes darkness. The very light that was in us, was Darkness, corrupting our Understandings and Imaginations; the Understanding dark. We are dead, yea, under the worst of deaths: dead in sin: You, saith he, that were dead in sins and trespasses, hath he quickened. How were they dead in sins? Did they not live in sin? Yes, saith he, wherein you walked. Why? what is their Death? To live in sin, is to be dead in sin; all the while the Prodigal lived in his sin, the Father said of him, he was dead: My Son that was dead is alive.
We were; What were we before Faith? Dark. We were the darkness it self, as the Apostles expression is, in Ephes. 5.8. saith he, Ye were sometimes darkness. The very light that was in us, was Darkness, corrupting our Understandings and Imaginations; the Understanding dark. We are dead, yea, under the worst of deaths: dead in sin: You, saith he, that were dead in sins and trespasses, hath he quickned. How were they dead in sins? Did they not live in sin? Yes, saith he, wherein you walked. Why? what is their Death? To live in sin, is to be dead in sin; all the while the Prodigal lived in his sin, the Father said of him, he was dead: My Son that was dead is alive.