Andrewes - Heaven Collection BX5133.A56 X3 1641

A SERMON PREA; CHED BEFORE Q .VEENE . EL i Z AB E t H, eAT HAMP TON ~ourt On Wednefday, being tbeVI. of March. A. 'D. MDl(Cllll; LV KE Chap. XVII. Ver.XXXII~ Memores efiote Vxotis L o T ~ ~memberL o T s Wife. 'A Part of tbe ()apier read this Morning, by order oftbe ClmrclJ,forII, Lejfon~ are few,and the fencenee lhort ; no one ;n Scripture fo ihort. Bur it farcth with Sentences as with Coines : In coines; thcy·that in fmalleil: compalfe .c<imaine greateft value, are bell: eftce– med ;and,in fenrences,thofe that in fewell: \vords comprife moll matter ,are moll: praifed. Which, as of all fenrences it is true; fo 'fpecially ofthofe rhat are marked with .Mement~.In rhem,the flJOr– rcr, the better ; tlie better, and the bettercarried away, and thebetter kept; and the better called for when wee need it. And fuch is this here; of rich conrenrs,.and withall exceeding compendi- . . ous: So that, wemufineadsbb,virhoutallex~ cufe,lt bemg bur three words,and but five fylbbles,if wedoe not remember it. '(i TheSentence is our SA v r o u R s, uttered by Him upon this occalion. Before,' Ln:erfn8.) He had fatd: that the dayes of theSon of man jbot~!d be tt<thedayes of !, mtwo refpccrs: 1 IrirefpeCl: of the fuddennelfe ofthe dellruchon thatilJOuld c~me ';andin rcfpeCl: of thefecuritieofthepeople on whom it fl1duld come. For, ~ ~ So :'"' 1 " laughed at it; andLots Wife (itlhould feemc) budlighrly regarded it. I emg h ltn in Lots llory; very fitly,and by good confequence,out·of that ftory; H;; eavethus aM•m•mo,before He leaveth it• .T ere arc Ul Lots llory, two very notable monuments of GoDs !J1dgernent.' 'The

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