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A Christians duty and safety in evil times Delivered in several sermons, upon four…A Christians duty and safety in evill times Delivered in severall sermons, upon four…
A Christians duty and safety in evil times Delivered in several sermons, upon four texts of scripture, viz. Christ's prayer the saints support, on John 17 15[.] A divine balance to weigh all doctrines by, on 1 Thes.5. 21[.] A Christians great enquiry, on Acts 16.30, 31[.] A description of true blessedness, on Luke 11. 28[.] By that faithful messenger of Jesus Christ, Mr Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence-jury, London. Whereunto is annexed The saints rest, or Their happy sleep in death. As it was delivered in a sermon at Aldermanbury, London. Aug. 24. 1651. By Edmund Calalmy. B. D.A Christians duty and safety in evill times Delivered in severall sermons, upon four texts of scripture, viz. Christ's prayer the saints support, on Iohn 17 15[.] A divine ballance to weigh all doctrines by, on 1 Thes.5. 21[.] A Christians great enquiry, on Acts 16.30, 31[.] A description of true blessedness, on Luke 11. 28[.] By that faithfull messenger of Jesus Christ, Mr Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence-jury, London. Whereunto is annexed The saints rest, or Their happy sleep in death. As it was delivered in a sermon at Aldermanbury, London. Aug. 24. 1651. By Edmund Calalmy. B. D.
London: printed for E. Brewster and George Sawbridge, 1653
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The next Use, is a use of Comfort; 1If it be so that Jesus Christ doth not desire, that his People should be taken out of the world, until they have don their work; Then all you that are Gods people, know that as long as God doth continue you here in the world, ⟨p. 32⟩he hath work for you to do: Suppose thou art thrown into Prison, consider that is a part of thy work thou must do for Jesus Christ: If thou art a Minister of the Gospel, and art under Poverty, Reproach, or cruel Persecution, for Righteousness sake, consider that this is part of the service that thou art to do for God; Christ will not take you away when you have half your work for to do, but when you have finished your work, then you shall go for to receive your wages. I remember a saying of Mr Bolton, 2when he was on his Death-bed; saith he, O Lord, this is my comfort, that though I have ended my days, yet I have done my work, before I die. This is comfortable indeed to a godly heart, but dreadful to you that are wicked, who when you have ended your days, have not begun your work, have not begun to serve your God. O this will be great galling of Conscience unto you another day; O this will be the worm that will gnaw upon you in hell to all ⟨p. 33⟩eternity, to remember that God set you out your work for to do in this world, and vouchsafed you both time and means, for the accomplishment of it; but you trifled away your time, sinned away many heavenly opportunities of grace and mercy, played all the day long, when you had so much work for to do: so that when your days were at an end, you had not begun your work. As it was with Charles the King of Sicily, 3who cried out with consternation of heart, I have not begun to live, and yet I am now going to die. O let not this guilt lie upon your Consciences; let not this be the worm to gnaw you in Hell, to remember that you lived long in the world, & yet did not the work for which God sent you into the world.
The next Use, is a use of Comfort; 1