The commination prescribed in the liturgy of the Church of England vindicated, and recommended to the consideration of all pious Christians in a sermon preached to a countrey audience on the first Sunday in Lent, 1679/80 / by Benjamin Camfeild ...
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- The commination prescribed in the liturgy of the Church of England vindicated, and recommended to the consideration of all pious Christians in a sermon preached to a countrey audience on the first Sunday in Lent, 1679/80 / by Benjamin Camfeild ...
- Author
- Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for H. Brome ... and R. Chiswell ...,
- 1680.
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- Lenten sermons.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"The commination prescribed in the liturgy of the Church of England vindicated, and recommended to the consideration of all pious Christians in a sermon preached to a countrey audience on the first Sunday in Lent, 1679/80 / by Benjamin Camfeild ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32780.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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TO THE COURTEOUS READER,
HOw this honest Discourse may rellish with thee, I know not: Yet if it prove Medici∣nal, the season I am sure, is good and proper enough for it, and, it matters not much, though it should be less palatable. Two desperately-malig∣nant humors it hath to encounter and work upon, Faction and Profaneness, both of them now almost grown Epidemical. God Almighty send it a Success answerable to the sincere intentions of him that tenders it. But, if thou art Friend to an Order∣ly Piety and Christian Life, He may promise himself, moreover, thy accep∣tance and Prayers: And that is all,
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which I have to desire of Thee on his be∣half: Ʋnless it be this point of common Justice, that thou Read it over without prejudice, and consider of it, before thou pass censure: But This too I should ra∣ther commend unto thee for thy own Be∣nefit, because Spiritual Physick Operates not like to Bodily, whether we think on it, or no.
Farewell.