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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
Sermon 2: THE BELIEVERS CONSOLATION, In the Remembrance of his Heavenly Mansion prepared for him…
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Instruction 1. Learn from hence, that the most and the greatest Communion that we have with Christ in this life, still leaves us in a condition of absence from Christ, compared with that Communion we shall have with him after death: So faith the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.8. We are willing to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord; ver. 6. for while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: It is a place of absence from the Lord, that is, compared with what we shall have after death. If you think of Paul, Who did enjoy Christ more then Paul did? Did not Paul enjoy Church-communion? Yes; but notwithstanding this was a place of absence from the Lord, compared with the society that by death he should be in. Was not Paul acquainted with any godly men? you know what he saith of Timothy; but yet (saith he) I am absent from mine own people. The word that is here translated [Absent] signifies Absence from his own people: he loved Timothy well, but he thinks the Spirits of just men made perfect, exceed the Spirit of Timothy: Here is no Companion that is like the Company there; here is no Communion will satisfy here. Where most of Christ is, it is best, but yet it is absence comparatively; We are absent from the Lord.
Instruction 1. Learn from hence, that the most and the greatest Communion that we have with Christ in this life, still leaves us in a condition of absence from Christ, compared with that Communion we shall have with him after death: So faith the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.8. We are willing to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord; ver. 6. for while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: It is a place of absence from the Lord, that is, compared with what we shall have after death. If you think of Paul, Who did enjoy Christ more then Paul did? Did not Paul enjoy Church-communion? Yes; but notwithstanding this was a place of absence from the Lord, compared with the society that by death he should be in. Was not Paul acquainted with any godly men? you know what he saith of Timothy; but yet (saith he) I am absent from mine own people. The word that is here translated [Absent] signifies Absence from his own people: he loved Timothy well, but he thinks the Spirits of just men made perfect, exceed the Spirit of Timothy: Here is no Companion that is like the Company there; here is no Communion will satisfie here. Where most of Christ is, it is best, but yet it is absence comparatively; We are absent from the Lord.