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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.
And surely Beloved, this affection in some degree is in every true Minister of Christ (they are full of sympathy and bowels, over whom the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers.)
There are reasons (which I will but glance at) first, why it will be thus, and secondly, why it should be thus. First, It will be thus for two reasons.
First, From that principle within, which teacheth love, grace doth not fire the heart with passion, but with compassion; grace in the heart of a Minister files off that ruggedness that is upon his spirit, and makes him lovely and courteous: Paul he once breathed out persecution, but when grace came, this Bramble was turned into a spiritual Vine, twisting himself about the souls of his people with loving embraces.
First, From that principle within, which teacheth love, grace doth not fire the heart with passion, but with compassion; grace in the heart of a Minister files off that ruggedness that is upon his spirit, and makes him lovely and curtious: Paul he once breathed out persecution, but when grace came, this Bramble was turned into a spiritual Vine, twisting himself about the souls of his people with loving embraces.