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Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…
Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor at Rotherhith. And now gathered together into one volume: the several texts and titles whereof are set down in the leaf followingCertaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor at Rotherhith. And now gathered together into one volume: the severall texts and titles whereof are set downe in the leafe following
London: printed by John Haviland and Anne Griffin, 1637London: printed by Iohn Haviland and Anne Griffin, 1637
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 Heathen themselves could say, thatt to God, a mans Parents, and his Teachers, sufficient requital could never be made. And no marvel. For if the Teachers do as they ought, and the Scholars likewise make that use of them that they should, they may well say of them as Paul doth to Philemon, uEtiam animam mihi debes, that they owe them their very souls; as having been a means even* to save their souls. And how ought they to love them from the heart, whom they owe their very souls unto?
The Heathen themselves could say, thatt to God, a mans Parents, and his Teachers, sufficient requitall could never be made. And no marvaile. For if the Teachers doe as they ought, and the Scholers likewise make that use of them that they should, they may well say of them as Paul doth to Philemon, uEtiam animam mihi debes, that they owe them their very soules; as having been a meanes even* to save their soules. And how ought they to love them from the heart, whom they owe their very soules unto?
- tDiis, Parentibus, & Praeceptoribus nihil pro merito posse rependi.
- uPhilem. 19.
- *Prov. 23.14. Jam. 5.20.Prov. 23.14.