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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.
TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.
Reader,
THE good acceptance which this Authors Treatises, (already published by us) have found, and the good success they have had among the people of ⟨image 3⟩God, together with the importunate desires of many godly persons that were […] of […] SERMONS, have put us upon recommending them to the World. The subject of those Sermons is not only Pipus but Seasonable, Every thing (saith Solomon) i• beautiful in its season, Eccles. 3. 11. The times wherein we live are famous for a Form of godliness, and, no less infamous for the want of the Power of it. Nothing is more common then for men to hear and pray, and perform the outside-duties of Religion. Nothing more rare then for man to do these things as becomes the Gospel. Men have so inured themselves to disputes about the Circumstantials of Worship, that Substantials are lost in the scuffle. And therefore it is commendable in a Minister to reduce the ⟨image 3⟩thoughts and hearts of people from needless controversies to the practicals of Christianity. As Socrates was commended for bringing down Philosophy from high and sublime speculation, to use and practice.
THE good acceptance which this Authors Treatises, (already published by us) have found, and the good successe they have had among the people of