Two sermons, for these who are to come to the table of the Lord With diverse prayers fit for the necessities of the Saincts at diverse occasions. Carefully digested by Mr. Zacharie Boyd, preacher of Gods word, at Glasgovv.
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Two sermons, for these who are to come to the table of the Lord With diverse prayers fit for the necessities of the Saincts at diverse occasions. Carefully digested by Mr. Zacharie Boyd, preacher of Gods word, at Glasgovv.
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Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.
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Edinburgh :: Printed by Iohn Wreittoun,
Anno dom. 1629.
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Lord's Supper -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800.
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TWO PREPARATIVE PRE∣FACES
TO THE SER∣MON
OF PREPA••RATION.
THE FIRST PREFACE.
THERE be two things in this
world, which cheefly should
greeue the heart of man: viz,
sinne and shame: The one is the mo∣ther;
the other is the daughter: Sinne
is ever full of shame, a shamefull
thing, great with shame as a woman
with child.* 1.1 * If wee would kill the vi∣per
of ••inne, the mother of shame,
let vs be ashamed of our sinnes▪ The
shame wherewith a sinner is ashamed
of his sinnes, killeth sinne and the
shame to ensue.* 1.2 * If we be not asham∣ed
of our sinnes which is repentance,
God shall by his judgements make vs
ashamed of our selues, which is ven∣geance:
In the consideration of this,
let vs fall downe vpon our kne••s with
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publick protestation, that to the Lord
our God belongeth the righteousnesse,
but to vs open shame and confusion
of face:* 1.3 Let vs humbly confesse our
sinnes into his presence, and kisse his
footstoole by a humble debaseing of
our soules and bodies before him,* 1.4 be∣fore
whose feete the crownes of Hea∣ven
are cast downe.
THE SECOND PREFACE.
* The fire of GOD his spirit is
not a painted fire,* 1.5 which seemeth to
bee that which it is not: It ever hath
some heat, though sometimes without
flamme.
This day wee are come before the Lord,
for to blow at the coale: Man must
blow, and God will blow: Man bloweth
vp the spark of grace by praying ser∣vently
to God: God bloweth it vp by the
powerfull preaching of the word outward∣ly,
and by the secret motion of his spi∣••it
inwardly. When God quickned Adam,
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but a dead lump of clay, scripture saith
that hee breathed into his nostrils
the breath of lyfe,* 1.6and man became
a living soule.* 1.7 * If the spirit of Iesus
this day breath into our hearts, he shall
be vnto our soules a quickning spirit,
which is better than Adams living
soule: For as that soule it was depri∣ved
of all lyfe by sinne, but where once
the quickning spirit is,* 1.8 that soule can
die no more: And seeing God his word
is the instrument of lyfe and the power
of God to salvation, I intreat you
all earnestly to pray from your hearts,
that Christ who breathed vpon his A∣postles
the sweete breath of the holy
GHOST would also vouchsafe in some
measure to blow breath vpon you,
and mee at this time: The LORD
blow into my heart and mouth the
words that may saue your soules.