A34165:984
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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2. Let us consider, What we are by Faith: and that will be another obligation upon us. We were not so bad before Faith, but we are better by Faith. We were not in so miserable a case before believing, but we are in as happy a case when we do believe. Why? what are we? we are alive, and Children of Light, and Children of God.
We are alive: You hath he quickened, saith he, or made alive; and, My Son that was dead is alive. Now, what is the work of the Living? It is to praise God, The Living, and the Living, they shall praise thee, as I do this day. Now if this be the work of the Living, then consider, if we hold not fast our Faith; if we Apostatize, we are so far from doing the work ⟨image 119⟩of the Living, that is of praising God, that we do all the dishonour we can to God; we do the work of dead men: Yea, we are twice dead.
We are Children of the Light: Ye were in darkness, but now are light in the Lord. Now it is very observable, what the Apostle speaks concerning the children of darkness, and the children of the light, 2 Thes. 5.5. You Believers, saith he, are all the children of the light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness; but what follows? therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch, and be sober: why? for they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunk be drunk in the night: if any stagger, that is the work of the night, this is not the work of the day: Now every Apostate that wavers, he is like a man that is drunk, so that he acts clean contrary to the children of the day. Saith he, They that are drunk, are drunk in the night; but saith he, Let us watch and be sober, and let us who are of the day, put on the Breast-plate of Faith, and for a Helmet the hope of Salvation.