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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... taken by a soldier on Sept. 2d , 1684 , while spending a day in prayer with some eminent ministers who escaped , and was commit- ted to Newgate , where he died Jan. 19th , 1685 . A nobleman having heard of it , said to the king , " May ...
... taken by a soldier on Sept. 2d , 1684 , while spending a day in prayer with some eminent ministers who escaped , and was commit- ted to Newgate , where he died Jan. 19th , 1685 . A nobleman having heard of it , said to the king , " May ...
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... taken up great part of our time . How easy a step did he make it from earth to heaven ! With what high flights of thought and affection was he wont to speak of the heavenly state ! Even like a man much more akin to the other world than ...
... taken up great part of our time . How easy a step did he make it from earth to heaven ! With what high flights of thought and affection was he wont to speak of the heavenly state ! Even like a man much more akin to the other world than ...
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... taken captives by the Amalekites : aye , but that was a distress of danger , not of sin ; therefore he encouraged himself in the Lord his God . Jehoshaphat was in a great strait , 2 Chron . xx . 12. “ We know not what to do , " saith he ...
... taken captives by the Amalekites : aye , but that was a distress of danger , not of sin ; therefore he encouraged himself in the Lord his God . Jehoshaphat was in a great strait , 2 Chron . xx . 12. “ We know not what to do , " saith he ...
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... taken in the gross notion ; you must not think of reeling , vomiting , as if to avoid these were a full com- pliance with Christ's direction ; the heart may be over- charged when the stomach is not . There is a dry drunk- enness , and a ...
... taken in the gross notion ; you must not think of reeling , vomiting , as if to avoid these were a full com- pliance with Christ's direction ; the heart may be over- charged when the stomach is not . There is a dry drunk- enness , and a ...
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... taken from us . And as he hath caused us to walk in the white of honour in the world , so he doth sometimes cause us to walk in reproach with the world . They who defile their garments , lose their honour with men , and they lose their ...
... taken from us . And as he hath caused us to walk in the white of honour in the world , so he doth sometimes cause us to walk in reproach with the world . They who defile their garments , lose their honour with men , and they lose their ...
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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.