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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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Learn then how to be abased now; do not stay till God forces abasement; if you stay till then, God may justly refuse to receive any glory from you, in any other but a passive way.
Learne then how to be abased now; doe not stay till God forces abasement; if you stay till then, God may justly refuse to receive any glory from you, in any other but a passive way.
Baseness should be farthest from the spirits of Noblemen; but to know how to be abased, that is, humbled before God, this is a lesson of great use for men of noble families, and noble spirits; it will no way hinder the nobleness of your spirits, but heighten and enlarge them.
Basenesse should be farthest from the spirits of Noblemen; but to know how to be abased, that is, humbled before God, this is a lesson of great use for men of noble families, and noble spirits; it will no way hinder the noblenesse of your spirits, but heighten and enlarge them.
1. A base spirit sinks down to low unworthy things, as the adequate object of it; it hath no high or honourable designs for God, or any thing of worth; but if the flesh may be satisfied in the lusts of it, this is all it minds.
1. A base spirit sinks down to low unworthy things, as the adequate object of it; it hath no high or honourable designes for God, or any thing of worth; but if the flesh may be satisfied in the lusts of it, this is all it mindes.