Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...
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- Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...
- Author
- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for G. and H. Eversden ...,
- 1654.
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- Bible. -- O.T. -- Ruth -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Christian life.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40658.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2025.
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TO The Right Worshipfull, and deservedly Honoured, the Lady ELIZABETH NEWTON, of CHARLETON in KENT.
MADAME,
SAint Paul in the first to the Thessalonians, chap. 2. vers. 18. saith unto them, I would have come unto you once and again••, but Satan hindred us. I may make use of the former part of his Expres∣sion, applying it to my frequent In∣tentions to visit the Place of your Abode, and bestow some Spirituall paines therein.
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But I must not play Satan with Satan, be a false Accuser, to charge on him the frustrating of my Design, (though generally he be a Back-Friend to all good Desires) but must justly impute it to my owne manifold avocations.
May your Ladyship now be plea∣sed to see what you expected to heare, and reade what I intended to speake. The first of these Sermons was designed for your Fore-Noones, the latter for your After-Noones Re∣past.
I am confident you will not mea∣sure my respect to you to be the lesse, because the benefit to others may be the greater by publishing thereof; and request you to accept hereof, not as intende•• a full payment for my ma∣ny Obligations unto you, but as tende∣red
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in consideration of your forbear∣ance, till I am enabled to expresse my Gratitude in a greater propor∣tion.
The Lord blesse you in your Selfe, dayly sanctifying your rare naturall Endowments with his choisest Gra∣ces; blesse you in your Sel••e divided, your Worthy Husband; in your Selfe multiplyed, your hopefull Sonne; and slowly, but surely, ter∣minate your Prosperitie here with endlesse happinesse hereafter: The heartie desire of
Your Ladyships boundant Orator, THOMAS FULLER.