A77999:77
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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Mariners use to say, if they have sea-room enough, they care not; but your greatest danger is in your sea-room. It is a saying of Augustine, and a very true one,1 It is a harder thing to fight with a mans lusts, then to fight with the cross: And of Cyprian, There is no evil but is easier overcome then pleasure. There is more skill required to manage an East-Indy Ship, then a Boat in the Thames. The warm beams of the Sun gets the Travellers cloak sooner from him, then the wind and storms can do. Many who fled for Religion in ⟨p. 24⟩Queen Mary's time, knew how to want; but coming again in Queen Elizabeths time, enjoying prosperity, they knew not how to abound, they proved naught. Manna could endure the heat of the fire, for the people baked it;2 but it melted before the heat of the Sun. Many have been melted by the heat of prosperity, who stood it out against the scorching heat of affliction. Elisha prayed for a double spirit of Elijah to be upon him; and why so? Augustine gives a reason, Elijah was persecuted, banished, lived in the wilderness; but Elisha was to live at Court, and therefore he had need of a double spirit, that he might know how to carry himself.
Mariners use to say, if they have sea-roome enough, they care not; but your greatest danger is in your sea-roome. It is a saying of Augustine, and a very true one,1 It is a harder thing to fight with a mans lusts, then to fight with the crosse: And of Cyprian, There is no evill but is easier overcome then pleasure. There is more skill required to manage an East-Indie Ship, then a Boat in the Thames. The warme beames of the Sunne gets the Travellers cloak sooner from him, then the wind and stormes can doe. Many who fled for Religion in ⟨p. 24⟩Queen Maries time, knew how to want; but comming againe in Queen Elizabeths time, enjoying prosperity, they knew not how to abound, they proved naught. Manna could endure the heat of the fire, for the people baked it;2