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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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A SERMON PREACHED at a late FAST, before the Right Honourable the H… › APPLICATION.
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Use 2 2. Those are rebuked who only take care to get abundance, but are not at all solicitous to learn how to abound. Jude 12. this among other characters is given of a wicked man, that he eats without fear, he takes in freely the delight of the creature; but there is no fear lest God should not have that glory that is due to him from it, this he minds not at all; we have not heretofore learned how to abound, Let us justify God in cutting us short now of what formerly we had; the abuse of abounding that was formerly, was most dreadful; if God should now only take off the excess there was in the Kingdom, though we be pinched for a while, the evil would not be much; our blood grew very rank by our fat pastures. No marvel though God now lets us blood. Luther speaking of excess in meats and drinks in his time,1 hath this speech, If Adam did now rise again and see the madness of all sorts of men, I believe he would stand senseless through sudden astonishment.
Vse 2 2. Those are rebuked who onely take care to get abundance, but are not at all solicitous to learne how to abound. Jude 12. this among other characters is given of a wicked man, that he eates without feare, he takes in freely the delight of the creature; but there is no feare lest God should not have that glory that is due to him from it, this he mindes not at all; we have not heretofore learned how to abound, Let us justifie God in cutting us short now of what formerly we had; the abuse of abounding that was formerly, was most dreadfull; if God should now onely take off the excesse there was in the Kingdom, though we be pinched for a while, the evill would not be much; our bloud grew very ranke by our fat pastures. No marvaile though God now letts us bloud. Luther speaking of excesse in meates and drinkes in his time,1 hath this speach, If Adam did now rise again and see the madnesse of all sorts of men, I beleeve he would stand senslesse through sudden astonishment.
- 1Si nunc Adam resurgeret, & videret hanc insaniam omnium ordinum, profecto credo quod prae stupore tanquam lapis staret. Luth. in