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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
It is despising of prophecy which is a pearl, Mat. 7. 6. Christ will not have him admonished that before contemptuously 1refused it, because he will have no pearls be cast before swine. If admonitions be pearls, then much more instructions; if a private admonition be a pearl, then sure public instructions: Now that is despising of prophecy, which is made plain thus. Suppose a man give another a pearl, while the giver is by, he looks on it and beholds the beauty of it, but when he is gone, ⟨p. 287⟩he casts it away and trampleth it under his feet. So it is, if while the Word is delivering we attend to it, and when Sermon is done reject it, and look no more on it, but cast it away, is not this a despising of prophecy? It is food of the soul, and therefore not to recall it, is as it were children to take▪ meat of their parents hands, and perhaps taste of it, but after cast it away; or it is as if sheep should tread their fodder under their feet. So it is when the Word is delivered (for it is the food of the soul) to receive it, and after to cast it away.
It is despising of prophesie which is a pearl, Mat. 7. 6. Christ will not have him admonished that before contemptuously 1refused it, because he will have no pearls be cast before swine. If admonitions be pearls, then much more instructions; if a private admonition be a pearl, then sure publick instructions: Now that is despising of prophesie, which is made plain thus. Suppose a man give another a pearl, while the giver is by, he looks on it and beholds the beauty of it, but when he is gone, ⟨p. 287⟩he casts it away and trampleth it under his feet. So it is, if while the Word is delivering we attend to it, and when Sermon is done reject it, and look no more on it, but cast it away, is not this a despising of prophesie? It is food of the soul, and therefore not to recal it, is as it were children to take meat of their parents hands, and perhaps taste of it, but after cast it away; or it is as if sheep should tread their fodder under their feet. So it is when the Word is delivered (for it is the food of the soul) to receive it, and after to cast it away.