LX. The Promises are full of Support and Comfort, but God must il∣luminate our Minds to discern what is treasured up in them.
The Promises, which are the Covenant of Grace display'd, are
The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified, or, A sermon (with some additions) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke, Kt. ... who departed this life July 22, and was interred in the parish-church of Yoxford, July 26, 1683, and in the 82d year of her age to which is annexed ... an account of the life and death of that eminent lady : with an appendix containing some observations, experiences, and rules for practice, found written with Her Ladiship's own hand / by Nath. Parkhurst ...
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- The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified, or, A sermon (with some additions) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke, Kt. ... who departed this life July 22, and was interred in the parish-church of Yoxford, July 26, 1683, and in the 82d year of her age to which is annexed ... an account of the life and death of that eminent lady : with an appendix containing some observations, experiences, and rules for practice, found written with Her Ladiship's own hand / by Nath. Parkhurst ...
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- Parkhurst, Nathaniel, 1643-1707.
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- London :: Printed for Samuel Sprint ... and John Harding ...,
- 1684.
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- Brooke, Elizabeth, -- Lady, -- 1601-1683.
- Church of England -- Sermons.
- Funeral sermons.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified, or, A sermon (with some additions) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke, Kt. ... who departed this life July 22, and was interred in the parish-church of Yoxford, July 26, 1683, and in the 82d year of her age to which is annexed ... an account of the life and death of that eminent lady : with an appendix containing some observations, experiences, and rules for practice, found written with Her Ladiship's own hand / by Nath. Parkhurst ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56406.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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most precious in the matter of them, and most necessary and useful to the Christian's Spiritual Life; they help and support when all other things fail. The Satis∣faction they bring, is a real true Pleasure; yet their Glory and Ex∣cellency is not to be seen till God opens the Christian's Eyes, and gives him a new Light. There is a Vail upon the Promises, or ra∣ther a Film upon the Eye of the Soul, and until that is removed, the Promises are dark, and they have no Form or Comliness in them: And though they be great and precious in themselves, yet they cannot be so to us, unless God and the Promise come in together. The Spirit must move upon the face of the Waters before they become refreshing Streams to make glad the Heart. The Christian's
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own Arm will not reach Com∣fort from them: For this, God must be sought, and the Promise must be our Meditation.