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The zealous Christian taking heavenThe zealovs Christian taking heaven
The zealous Christian taking heaven by holy violence in several sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...The zealovs Christian taking heaven by holy violence in severall sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...
London: printed by R. and W. Leybourn for John Rothwell, 1653
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.
This Text is part of the large commendation that Christ gives of the person 1and Ministry of John the Baptist. John was a crier in the wilderness to publish the glory of Christ, and Christ an Herald to proclaim the praise of John. And this he doth,
THis Text is part of the largecommendation that Christ gives of the person 1and Ministery of John the Baptist. John was a crier in the wildernesse to publish the glory of Christ, and Christ an Herauld to proclaim the praise of John. And this he doth,
- 1The Content opened.
1 For his constancy in the doctrine of Religion, vers. 7. What went you out to see? 1a read shaken with the wind? a light, fickle, and inconstant Preacher, that like a reed ⟨p. 2⟩turns with every wind of doctrine. John was no such man, not like a reed, to yield to the stream or blast of every wind, but like the oak or cedar that stands unmoveably in the midst of the greatest storms.
1 For his constancy in the doctrine of Religion, vers. 7. What went you out to see? 1a read shaken with the winde? a light, fickle, and inconstant Preacher, that like a reed ⟨p. 2⟩turnes with every winde of doctrine. John was no such man, not like a reed, to yield to the stream or blast of every winde, but like the oake or cedar that stands unmoveably in the midst of the greatest stormes.