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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
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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.
Direction 1. Keep your constant hours every day with God; the godly man is a man set apart, Psa. 4. 3. not only because God hath set him apart by election, but because he sets himself apart by devotion: Give God his hours every day; visit God in the morning before you make any other visit: wind up your hearts to heaven in the morning and they will go the better all day after. O turn your Closets into Temples, read the Scriptures, the two Testaments of the two lips by which God hath spoken to us, these will make us wise to salvation: The Scripture is both a glass to show your spots, and a laver to wash them away; besiege Heaven every day with prayer, thus perfume your houses, and keep a constant intercourse with heaven.
Direction 1. Keep your constant hours every day with God; the godly man is a man set apart, Psa. 4. 3. not onely because God hath set him apart by election, but because he sets himself apart by devotion: Give God his hours every day; visit God in the morning before you make any other visit: wind up your hearts to heaven in the morning and they will go the better all day after. O turn your Closets into Temples, read the Scriptures, the two Testaments of the two lips by which God hath spoken to us, these will make us wise to salvation: The Scripture is both a glass to shew your spots, and a laver to wash them away; besiege Heaven every day with prayer, thus perfume your houses, and keep a constant intercourse with heaven.
Direct. 2. Get good Books into your house; when you have not the spring near you, you will get water into your Cisterns; when you have not that wholesome preaching that you were wont to have, good books are the Cisterns to hold the water of life to refresh you. When Davids natural heat was taken away they applied warm clothes to him, 1 King. 1. when you find ⟨p. 8⟩a chilness upon your soul, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply your selves with warm clothes, get these good Books that may furnish you with such truth as may warm and affect your hearts.