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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.
The father pays the nurse, though the child die. The Apothecaries bill must be paid, though the patient die: So God will reward Ministers, though success be not answerable to their endeavours, Isa. 49. 4. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, and 1spent my strength for nought and in vain, yet ⟨p. 26⟩surely my judgement is with the Lord, and my work with my God; or the reward of my work.
The father payes the nurse, though the childe die. The Apothecaries bill must be paid, though the patient die: So God will reward Ministers, though successe be not answerable to their endeavours, Isa. 49. 4. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, and 1spent my strength for nought and in vain, yet ⟨p. 26⟩surely my judgement is with the Lord, and my work with my God; or the reward of my work.
3 The word may live in the hearers hearts when the Minister is dead, John 4. 36, 37. He that reapeth, receiveth wages, and 1gathereth fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. As a wicked man doth hurt after his death, so a good man doth good,