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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.
They shall get better applause then they should have if they had the other, viz. the applause of God. Shall the Heathen man esteem his conscience, pro amplissimo Theatro, and shall not we esteem the testimony of our conscience above other things, we that have the life of Christ in us and believe the scripture, that God rewards them that do good, and shall we be carried away more to please the inordinate appetite of curious hearers, then for conscience towards God. Hear what Saint Chrysostom said of him self, for it is remarkable, When I first began to preach I was a child and delighted in rattles, in the applause of the people, but when I was a man I began to despise them; so ought Ministers to be rather delighted fletu then plausu populi, with the weeping then the applause of the people.
They shall get better applause then they should have if they had the other, viz. the applause of God. Shall the Heathen man esteem his conscience, pro amplissimo Theatro, and shall not we esteem the testimony of our conscience above other things, we that have the life of Christ in us and believe the scripture, that God rewards them that do good, and shall we be carried away more to please the inordinate appetite of curious hearers, then for conscience towards God. Hear what Saint Chrysostom said of him self, for it is remarkable, When I first began to preach I was a childe and delighted in rattles, in the applause of the people, but when I was a man I began to despise them; so ought Ministers to be rather delighted fletu then plausu populi, with the weeping then the applause of the people.
But secondly, their auditory will not relish it when Pithanologia is not mixed with their preachings.
But secondly, their auditory will not rellish it when Pithanologia is not mixt with their preachings.