. Christ dying and drawing sinners to himselfe, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soule-suffering, his lovelynesse in his death, and the efficacie thereof : ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John, chap. XII .... p TO T HE IVDICIOVS AND Qodly %eader. F, in this luxuriant and wanton Ageof proud and ranke wits • any fhouldwrite of this kind, and bee wantingto the exalting of the Plant ofremwne,theflwre of Iff at, tfefus Cbrijl, and tothe dew of his youth, the free graceof God, his heart may cenfure his pen, and he^whois greater then the mans heart, fliouldchallengc-him*The
. Christ dying and drawing sinners to himselfe, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soule-suffering, his lovelynesse in his death, and the efficacie thereof : ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John, chap. XII .... p TO T HE IVDICIOVS AND Qodly %eader. F, in this luxuriant and wanton Ageof proud and ranke wits • any fhouldwrite of this kind, and bee wantingto the exalting of the Plant ofremwne,theflwre of Iff at, tfefus Cbrijl, and tothe dew of his youth, the free graceof God, his heart may cenfure his pen, and he^whois greater then the mans heart, fliouldchallengc-him*The weake and low ayme of a (inner, writing^.aSaviour, andfuch a Saviour (hould be, that Fakhlrhdfenfe may goe along with tongue and pen, but howfhort raoft men come, of reaching fuchan end,whocannot but confefle < The minde may bee calmed a little in this, that,though to fpeake highly of Chrift, bee, in pooremen, who are fo low under, and unequall to fo greata Province, a marring rather of his dignity, and aflattering of Chrift,then a reall prayfing of, orpoint-ing him out in all his vertucs and lovelincffe, in re-gard that the foulencfleohhe breath of a {inner mayblacken the beauty of fuch a tranfeendent and in-comparable f
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