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The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published…
The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published for the support and comfort of Gods people, in all times of trial / by John Davenport ...The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published for the support and comfort of Gods people, in all times of tryal / by John Davenport ...
London: printed by W.L. for Geo. Hurlock, 1661
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.
The balking of any duty, which God commandeth, is the ready way to bring upon you, by the wrath of God, that very evil, which you fear that the doing of your duty will expose you to, by the wrath of men. This was that Argument, which the Prophet Jeremiah used, to Zedekiah, in Jer. 38. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Because he, fearing lest the Jews, that were fallen to the Chaldeans, should deliver him into their hand, and they should mock him; by disobeying the Commandment of God, brought upon himself, as a just punishment from the wrath of God, the thing which he feared.
The balking of any duty, which God commandeth, is the ready way to bring upon you, by the wrath of God, that very evil, which you fear that the doing of your duty will expose you to, by the wrath of men. This was that Argument, which the Prophet Jeremy used, to Zedekiah, in Jer. 38. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Because he, fearing lest the Iews, that were fallen to the Caldaeans, should deliver him into their hand, and they should mock him; by disobeying the Commandement of God, brought upon himself, as a just punishment from the wrath of God, the thing which he feared.
2. The next thing to be shown, for your instruction, is, how they that are so qualified should exercise this hope, in reference to the public concernments of the Churches, in this their low and afflicted condition. For this purpose I shall propound two directions.
2. The next thing to be shewn, for your instruction, is, how they that are so qualified should exercise this hope, in reference to the publick concernments of the Churches, in this their low and afflicted condition. For this purpose I shall propound two directions.