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The works of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons…The workes of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honovrable House of Commons…
The works of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, April 27th 1642 / by Joseph Caryl ...The workes of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honovrable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, April 27th 1642 / by Ioseph Caryl ...
London: printed for John Bartlet and William Bladen, 1642London: printed for Iohn Bartlet and William Bladen, 1642
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If we shall be ⟨p. 19⟩thus rewarded for water, what shall we be for our blood shed for the name of Christ. When for Christs sake we labour and sweat, and dye to do good for others. When to Christ and to his people in his name, we give our time, and our strength, our sleep and our meats, our comforts and recreations, our credit and our estates, our liberties and our lives. When Ahasuerus read in 1the book of the Records of the Chronicles, how Mordecai had discovered a treason against his person. The King enquires what honour and what dignity hath bin done unto Mordecai for this? It seems if the King had thought on, or read him sooner, he had rewarded him sooner. God hath ever in his eye all the Records and Chronicles of your good works, he reads your journals every day, and when he meets with any that have done or spoken aright for him, he enquires what honour, what dignity hath been done for this man? If none hath been done, he will do it himself, if any thing hath been done, he will do yet more: He that honours 2me I will honour. Who would not work for thee O King of Nations? Who would not work for thee O King of Saints? None shall lose a word, no nor a thought for Christ. Wherefore (as the Apostle concludes, so shall I this first Doctrine) My Beloved Brethren, 3be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. And this leads me on to the first part of the Gradation, observed and approved by Christ in their works, The laboriousness of them, I know thy work, and thy labour.
If we shall be ⟨p. 19⟩thus rewarded for water, what shall we be for our bloud shed for the name of Christ. When for Christs sake we labour and sweat, and dye to do good for others. When to Christ and to his people in his name, we give our time, and our strength, our sleep and our meats, our comforts and recreations, our credit and our estates, our liberties and our lives. When Ahasuerus read in 1