A65307:41
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.
Direction 10. Trade much in promises, the promises are great supports to faith; faith lives on a promise, as the fish lives in the Water; promises are both comforting and quickening, they are the very breasts of the Gospel: As a child by sucking at the breast gets strength, so faith by sucking at the breast of a promise will get strength as the Eagl. Promises are the bladders to keep us from sinking, when we come into the Waters of affliction: They are a sweet cluster of Grapes that grow upon Christ the true Vine; there is no condition we can be in, but there is a promise to it, the promises like manna suits themselves to every Christians palate.
Direction 10. Trade much in promises, the promises are great supports to faith; faith lives on a promise, as the fish lives in the Water; promises are both comforting and quickning, they are the very breasts of the Gospel: As a childe by sucking at the breast gets strength, so faith by sucking at the brest of a promise will get strength as the Eagl. Promises are the bladders to keep us from sinking, when we come into the Waters of affliction: They are a sweet cluster of Grapes that grow upon Christ the true Vine; there is no condition we can be in, but there is a promise to it, the promises like manna sutes themselves to every Christians pallat.
Direct. 11. Live in a calling: Jerome gave this advice to his friend, that he should be always employed, that when the Devil came he might not find him idle; sure I am, the same God that saith remember the seventh day to keep it holy, saith, ⟨p. 13⟩six days shalt thou labour, the great God never sealed any warrant to idleness; an Idle person is a shame to his profession, 2 Thes. 4. 11. Some we hear work not at all. Solon made a Law that Idleness should be punished, and Cicero saith of an Idle person, that he draweth his breath but doth not live, that is in a calling he is not useful, a good Christian acts within the sphere of a calling.
Direct. 11. Live in a calling: Ierom gave this advice to his friend, that he should be always imployed, that when the Devil came he might not find him idle; sure I am, the same God that saith remember the seventh day to keep it holy, saith,