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Asarkokaukemma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, opened in a sermon preached…Asarkokaukēma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, open'd in a sermon preached…
Asarkokaukemma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, opened in a sermon preached at the funeral of Kingsmel Lucy, Esq. Eldest son to Francis Lucy, Esq. / By Tho. Case ...Asarkokaukēma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, open'd in a sermon preached at the funeral of Kingsmel Lucy, Esq. Eldest sonne to Francis Lucy, Esq. / By Tho. Case ...
London: printed by T.R. and E.M. for Robert Gibbs, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And for both these he quoteth divine Authority, though he himself spake by the afflatus of the same Spirit. As it is written, viz. Jer. 9.23, 24.
I shall not detain you in the opening of the words, what need any clearing, will meet us in the handling of the doctrinal observations, which do naturally arise from the words, and they are three.
I shall not detein you in the opening of the words, what need any clearing, will meet us in the handling of the doctrinal observations, which do naturally arise from the words, and they are three.
1. Observ. Flesh must not glory; or, Flesh is not to be gloried in. 2. Observ. God, and God exclusively to all other things, is to be gloried in. 3. Observ. This is Gods design, or God hath so ordered and contrived the whole state and condition of the creature, whether in order to Nature or Grace, Grace or Glory, that he might cut off all occasion of boasting or glorying in any thing but himself.
I shall insist only upon the former, the other two will serve us, either in the Explication or Application of the point: which is this: