1609, ISBN: 9781458910882

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON II. THE PASSION SERMON. PREACHED AT PAUL'S CROSS ON GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1609. TO THE ONLY HONOUR AND GLORY OF MT DEAR AND BLESSED SAVIOUR, WHICH HATH DONE AND SUFFERED ALL THESE THINGS FOR MY SOUL, HIS WEAK AND UNWORTHY SERVANT HUMBLY DESIRES TO CONSECRATE HIMSELF AND HIS POOR LABOURS: BESEECHING HIM TO ACCEPT AND BLESS THEM TO THE PUBLIC GOOD, AND TO THE PRAISE OF HIS OWN GLORIOUS NAME. TO THE READER. I desire not to make any apology for the edition of this my Sermon. It is motive enough, that herein I affect a more public and more enduring good. Spiritual niceness is the next degree to unfaithfulness. This point cannot be too much urged either by the tongue or press. Religion and our souls depend upon it yet are our thoughts too much beside it. The Church of Rome so fixes herself in her adoration upon the cross of Christ, as if she forgat his glory: many of us so conceive of him glorious, that we neglect the meditation of his cross, the way to his glory and ours. If we would proceed aright, we must pass from his Golgotha to the Mount of Olives, and from thence to heaven and there seek and settle our rest. According to my weak ability, I have led this way in my speech beseeching my readers to follow me with their hearts, that we may overtake him, which is entered into the true sanctuary, even the highest heavens, to appear now in the sight of God for us. JOHN XIX. 30. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the Ghost. The bitter and yet victorious passion of the Son of God, right honourable and beloved Christians, as it was the strangest thing that ever befell the earth, so is both of most sovereign use, and looks for the most frequent and careful meditation. It i...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<