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Title:  The penitent death of a woefull sinner, or, The penitent death of John Atherton, late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland who was executed at Dublin the 5. of December, 1640 : with some annotations upon severall passages in it : as also the sermon, with some further enlargements, preached at his burial / by Nicolas Barnard ...
Author: Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.
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of God in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ. I wonder with what face, some can pray before him who is the searcher of the hearts, for the conversiō of their hearers by their Sermon, when res ipsa loquitur, there can be no such meaning in them, but rather their owne Qui parvis loquitur sub∣limia, curat magis se o∣stēdere, quā auditoribus prodesse.Greg: in Mo∣ral.ap∣plause. Painted glasse is the more costly, but plainer is the more per∣spicuous, and so the more usefull: Men may spend much time to paint and set out their Sermons, but the plainer the more profitable. The Childe thrives more with the meer milke of the brest, than all other sweet meats whatsoever. And tis sure the 1 Pet. 2.2. .sincere milke of the word (as S. Peter cals it) drawne out of the two Brests of the Church, the Old and New Testament, nourish∣eth more to everlasting life, then all other Placentia, men-pleasing Oratory whatsoever. Mat: 13.47 The word in the Parable is compared to a Net, the world to the Sea, Men to Fishes. If we will have the Fish catched, the Net must be spread0