Farewell Sermons of Some of the Most Eminent of the Nonconformist Ministers: Delivered at the Period of Their Ejectment by the Act of Uniformity in the Year 1662 : to which is Prefixed a Historical and Biographical PrefaceMost of the sermons contained in this collection were delivered on the twenty-fourth of August, in the year 1662. On that day the act requiring a perfect conformity to the book of Common Prayer, and to the rites and ceremonies of the church took place, the effect of which enactment was the silencing of nearly two thousand five hundred ministers, the death of three thousand nonconformists, and the ruin of sixty thousand families. Such was the result of the restoration of Charles the Second of infamous memory. - Preface. |
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... affection was he wont to speak of the heavenly state ! Even like a man much more akin to the other world than this . Let those who other visited him say , whether he did not usually send them away with somewhat that tended to better ...
... affection was he wont to speak of the heavenly state ! Even like a man much more akin to the other world than this . Let those who other visited him say , whether he did not usually send them away with somewhat that tended to better ...
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... affection to the elect of God : all these were blessed straits : but now straits caused by sin , these are imbittered and envenomed by the guilt of sin , and sense of God's wrath . It is sin that maketh straits deserve the name of ...
... affection to the elect of God : all these were blessed straits : but now straits caused by sin , these are imbittered and envenomed by the guilt of sin , and sense of God's wrath . It is sin that maketh straits deserve the name of ...
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... affections , and put them- selves out of the number of his children . If but all these things are accomplished in the saints of God before you , here is a " cloud of witnesses " that have been exer- cised and tried to purpose , 1 Pet ...
... affections , and put them- selves out of the number of his children . If but all these things are accomplished in the saints of God before you , here is a " cloud of witnesses " that have been exer- cised and tried to purpose , 1 Pet ...
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... affections ; there is nothing that hardens the heart so much as the softness of carnal pleasure , Jude xix . " Sensual , having not the spi- rit . " Sensuality quenches our natural bravery and brisk- ness of spirit that becomes a man ...
... affections ; there is nothing that hardens the heart so much as the softness of carnal pleasure , Jude xix . " Sensual , having not the spi- rit . " Sensuality quenches our natural bravery and brisk- ness of spirit that becomes a man ...
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... affections , the more they increase upon you ; and therefore you must hold the reins hard ; exer- cise a powerful restraint . Solomon , in his Penitentials , gives us an account of his own folly ; and how fearfully he was corrupted this ...
... affections , the more they increase upon you ; and therefore you must hold the reins hard ; exer- cise a powerful restraint . Solomon , in his Penitentials , gives us an account of his own folly ; and how fearfully he was corrupted this ...
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Page 65 - The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: but, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me. The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
Page 220 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment, ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Page 170 - Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 11 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 296 - Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Page 302 - God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Page 306 - MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring...
Page 301 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Page 326 - Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Page 1 - And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.