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Three choice and profitable sermons upon several texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17,…Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17,…
Three choice and profitable sermons upon several texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is showed, the Lords sovereignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...
printed by S.G. and M.I. for Hezekiah Usher of Boston, 1664
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If Poets Writings any truth contain, Ages fierce Wars shall never more maintain.
But it is not in our power, most excellent Dury, to add our counsel, either to the beginning or the preserving this Agreement. You are not ignorant, that we are Exiles, Britons, altogether divided from the rest of Europe; wherefore we are less fit to perform this Task: Neither are we so unsensible of our own weakness, as not readily to confess our inability for so great a Service; nor is there need, seeing we must thankfully acknowledge and own, that this office hath been abundantly performed, both by Strangers, as well as by our own Countrymen.
But it is not in our power, most excellent Dury, to adde our counsel, either to the beginning or the preserving this Agreement. You are not ignorant, that we are Exiles, Britains, altogether divided from the rest of Europe; wherefore we are less fit to perform this Task: Neither are we so unsensible of our own weakness, as not readily to confess our inability for so great a Service; nor is there need, seeing we must thankfully acknowledge and own, that this office hath been abundantly performed, both by Strangers, as well as by our own Countrymen.
We may here call to mind, and not without some sacred sympathy, ⟨p. 9⟩those Blessed Souls, Melanchthon, and Pareus, now amongst the Blessed; the one no less famous amongst the Reformed, then the other amongst the Evangelics; The first of whom going towards Haganoa, with sighing uttered these words,
We may here call to minde, and not without some sacred sympathy, ⟨p. 9⟩