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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey…A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey…
A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemn and public humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughs. Published by order of the said House.A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughes. Published by order of the said House.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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5. Learn that man is borne to labour, yea the greatest upon the earth not exempted; none of you are born to live like the Leviathan. Psal. 104.26. There is the Leviathan, whom how hast made to play in the sea. You came not into the world, your lives are not continued ⟨p. 38⟩for this end; there are other labours in the world besides servile, that God hath fitted for the most noble spirits.
5. Learne that man is borne to labour, yea the greatest upon the earth not exempted; none of you are born to live like the Leviathan. Psal. 104.26. There is the Leviathan, whom hou hast made to play in the sea. You came not into the world, your lives are not continued ⟨p. 38⟩for this end; there are other labours in the world besides servile, that God hath fitted for the most noble spirits.
6. Learn the excellency of spiritual riches, of true riches; the least degree of grace, yea every gracious work is more worth then heaven and earth, says Luther. He professed he preferred the understanding of one of the Psalms, above all the riches of the world. If we were got up to heaven, the earth would seem as little to us, as now we being upon the earth, the stars seem to be.
6. Learne the excellency of spirituall riches, of true riches; the least degree of grace, yea every gracious work is more worth then heaven and earth, sayes Luther. He professed he preferred the understanding of one of the Psalmes, above all the riches of the world. If we were got up to heaven, the earth would seeme as little to us, as now we being upon the earth, the starres seeme to be.