A77999:96
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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4. The mystery of godliness there is in learning how to abound. [Greek or Hebrew], I am instructed.
4. The mysterie of godlinesse there is in learning how to abound. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I am instructed.
The strength of reason may go far in ordering a prosperous condition so as not to be very offensive, but there is a great mystery of godliness in knowing how to abound in a christian spiritual way.
The strength of reason may goe farre in ordering a prosperous condition so as not to be very offensive, but there is a great mystery of godlinesse in knowing how to abound in a christian spirituall way.
1. A godly man learns to abound by being faithful, Prov. 28.20. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Many think the only way to get abundance is by being false, by shifting courses; they dare not trust to the ways of faithfulness, they see a mighty Current of opposition against them, but the godly man desires neither to get nor to enjoy more in the world, then he may have by being faithful.
1. A godly man learnes to abound by being faithfull,