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The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…
The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August 23, 1663 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich.The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August 23, 1663 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich.
London: printed by T. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1663
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 Staves of BEAUTY and BANDS Opened in a SERMON preached at Yarmouth, August 23. 1663.
THE Staves of BEAUTY and BANDS Opened in a SERMON preached at Yarmonth, August 23. 1663.
Zechar. 11. 7. I took unto me Two Staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands, and I fed the Flock.
THERE was no Office which Christ undertook, no Ministry which he instituted in his Church, which was not by him directed and intended unto such excellent Ends, as whereby the Honour ⟨p. 2⟩and Welfare thereof might be advanced. When in this place he assumed his Pastoral Office to Govern and guide his Flock, he doth by the names of these two Staves acquaint us with two noble Ends of that Service; The Restoring of Beauty to his Church corrupted, and of Unity to his Church divided; Of both which we shall, by Gods Assistance, take a brief View.
THERE was no Office which Christ undertook, no Ministery which he instituted in his Church, which was not by him directed and intended unto such excellent Ends, as whereby the Honour ⟨p. 2⟩and Welfare thereof might be advanced. When in this place he assumed his Pastoral Office to Govern and guide his Flock, he doth by the names of these two Staves acquaint us with two noble Ends of that Service; The Restoring of Beauty to his Church corrupted, and of Unity to his Church divided; Of both which we shall, by Gods Assistance, take a brief View.