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The souls possession of ChristThe soules possession of Christ
The souls possession of Christ: showing how a Christian should put on Christ, and be able to do all things through his strength. Whereunto in annexed A sermon preached at the funeral of that worthy divine Mr. Wimott, late minister of Clare, in Suffolk. By T.H.The soules possession of Christ: shewing how a Christian should put on Christ, and bee able to doe all things through his strength. Whereunto in annexed A sermon preached at the funerall of that worthy divine Mr. Wimott, late minister of Clare, in Suffolke. By T.H.
London: printed by M. Flesher for Francis Eglesfield, 1638
Sermon 1: THE SOULS POSSESSION OF CHRIST.Sermon 1: THE SOULES POSSESSION OF CHRIST.
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.
If a man be covetous, and if nothing but beggary will loose his heart from the world; he ought to pray for a low estate, and contentedness with his condition. If a man be unable to subdue the pride of his spirit; there is no other way (sometime) to cure a man of this Tympany, but with a desperate extremity; there is no way to cure a proud heart, but to blow upon its excellencies, and lay ⟨p. 151⟩all its honour in the dust. This is harsh, yet a gracious heart is content, though it be never so sharp, and cost never so dear; though I be the off-scouring of the world, slighted and trampled upon by every one, though I lie in the dust all my days, and go to the bottomless pit for the while; I care not, any thing rather than a proud heart. Though I lose my parts and abilities, & am never so much loaden with disgraces, free me from a lofty spirit, and I care not. This man now means in good earnest to part with his corruptions.
If a man be covetous, and if nothing but beggery will loose his heart from the world; he ought to pray for a low estate, and contentednesse with his condition. If a man be unable to subdue the pride of his spirit; there is no other way (sometime) to cure a man of this Timpany, but with a desperate extremity; there is no way to cure a proud heart, but to blow upon its excellencies, and lay ⟨p. 151⟩all its honour in the dust. This is harsh, yet a gracious heart is content, though it bee never so sharpe, and cost never so deare; though I bee the off-scouring of the world, slighted and trampled upon by every one, though I lie in the dust all my dayes, and goe to the bottomelesse pit for the while; I care not, any thing rather than a proud heart. Though I lose my parts and abilities, & am never so much loaden with disgraces, free me from a lofty spirit, and I care not. This man now meanes in good earnest to part with his corruptions.
But what shall we think of those, that are content rather to part with their blood and lives, than with their base corruptions? I mean the profane wretches of this age, that are so far from being divorced from their sins, that they are not willing to hear thereof, or to have the Minister meddle therewith; they will not endure the least reproof to come near them, or touch them; no means can prevail to tear their distempers from their souls; to pluck the cup from the drunkard, or the pleasure from the Adulterer, or greediness