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A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farewell sermon preached at…A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farwel sermon preached at…
A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farewell sermon preached at Stephens Walbrook, London, August 17, 1662 / by Mr. Tho. Watson.A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farwel sermon preached at Stephens VValbrook, London, August 17, 1662 / by Mr. Tho. VVatson.
London printed : s.n., 1662
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. His head with labour, the work of a Minister if done aright, is a work fitter for Angels then for Men. It is our work to open the Oracles of God, even these sacred and profound things, ⟨p. 2⟩that the Angels search into. If God did not help us, we might soon sink under the weight of such a burden.
2. As a Ministers Head is exercised with labour, so his Heart with love, and Its hard to say which of these two exceed, so it is in the Text, dearly Beloved.
In these words we have St. Paul laying siege to these Corinthians, and labouring to make a happy Victory, to conquer them with kindness.
St. Pauls heart was a spring of love, his lips were the pipes, the Corinthians were the Cistern in the which this spring did run. This holy Apostle was a mirror or pattern of love; to the sinning Corinthians, Pauls Tears did drop; to the praying Corinthians, his love did burn; holy Paul he was a Ceraphim, his heart did burn in flaming affections to his people, how many appellations do we find scattered in his Epistles, that are witness of his love, he tells his people to whom he sometimes wrote, sometimes preached,