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Seven godly and fruitful sermons. The six first preached by Master John DodSeuen godlie and fruitfull sermons. The six first preached by Master Iohn Dod
Seven godly and fruitful sermons. The six first preached by Master John Dod: the last by Master Robert Cleaver. Whereunto is annexed, a brief discourse, touching, 1. Extinguishing of the spirit, 2. Murmuring in afflictionSeuen godlie and fruitfull sermons. The six first preached by Master Iohn Dod: the last by Master Robert Cleauer. Whereunto is annexed, a briefe discourse, touching, 1. Extinguishing of the spirit, 2. Murmuring in affliction
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for William Welby, 1614
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.
1to eat and drink without fear, without prayer, and thanks-giving, as if the creatures were our own, and nor the Lords, to abuse the blessings of God to surfeiting and drunkenness, &c: these and the like corruptions, do turn eating and drinking into sin, which in themselves are not only allowable, but also necessary. The like may be said concerning marriage, 2it is a sanctified ordinance of God unto those that use it holily: but then it becomes very sinful and hateful unto the Lord, 3when the Sons of God do join with the daughters of men, and professors are yoked with Infidels, for beauty, or commodity, or any such carnal respect: yet that is a horrible sin, too too common among such as profess Christianity, that they make no scruple of matching their children with those, whom they know by their works to be as yet the children of the devil; and so in other matters, if they can prove them once to ⟨p. 10⟩be in themselves lawful, they make no conscience of the means they use, nor of the end they propose in accomplishing of them.
1to eate and drinke without feare, without prayer, and thanks-giuing, as if the creatures were our owne, and nor the Lords, to abuse the blessings of God to surfetting and drunkennesse, &c: these and the like corruptions, doe turne eating and drinking into sinne, which in themselues are not onely allowable, but also necessarie. The like may be said concerning marriage, 2it is a sanctified ordinance of God vnto those that vse it holily: but then it becomes very sinfull and hatefull vnto the Lord, 3when the Sonnes of God doe ioyne with the daughters of men, and professors are yoaked with Infidels, for beautie, or commoditte, or any such carnall respect: yet that is a horrible sinne, too too common among such as professe Christianitie, that they make no scruple of matching their children with those, whome they know by their workes to be as yet the children of the diuell; and so in other matters, if they can proue them once to