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a/src/0022.pm b/src/0022.pm index b12a917..e5d0237 100644 --- a/src/0022.pm +++ b/src/0022.pm @@ -1,19 +1,17 @@ #lang pollenBeloved, there hashave been diversvarious preparations and examinations for this action; therefore lose not all these for not taking heed to yourselves now. Therefore return your spirits from all external things, and only meditate on the death of Christ. I know there are different degrees of knowledge; yet let these who hashave the meanest measure of knowledge come here with honest hearts, and they shall not go empty away at this time. And because, as it is in ◊ref{Josh.6.10} when the people went about the walls of Jericho, they were commanded [toto be silent],silent, for this end, first, that whatever obloquies the enemies spake of them, they should not take heed to them; for before the seventh day were at an end, they should repent all their speeches, and therefore he would not have their minds withdrawn by answering them.◊footnote{The obloquies and aspersions to which the author and his brethren were constantly subjected during the course of these great affairs is once and again referred to in no ambiguous terms throughout this collection. He here informs us how he endeavouredendeavored to meet them. "He was," says Baillie, "silent under misconstructions;" although on one remarkable occasion, in the Assembly of 1642, his indignant feelings compelled him to break through the customary restraint.} Secondly, he would have them to be @@ -28,13 +26,13 @@ Beloved, we do not pray "that Almighty God would sanctify this bread and wine, by his word and Spirit, that it may be the body and blood of Christ;" but we say only that when it is sanctified by the word and prayer, then it is the sacrament representing the body and blood of Christ to them who believe: and to those who hashave faith we may say so. So after the bread and wine is sanctified we have warrant to say, "This is my body, broken for you." "This is the cup of the new testament in my blood, shed for the remission of the sins of many;" but we have no warrant to pray that God by his almighty power would sanctify the elements to be the body and blood of Christ.◊footnote{The most flagrant and alarming change in the Scottish Liturgy, bringing it into near conformity to Rome, occurs in the following sentence in the Communion Service:---Service: "We most humbly beseech thee, and of thy almighty goodness vouchsafe to bless and sanctify with thy word and Holy Spirit these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine, ◊it{that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly @@ -42,16 +40,16 @@ beloved Son}."}
Meditate upon the death of Christ now, and think seriously upon it. There is not a better thought for you than the last words of the sacrament. "So often as yeyou eat this bread, and drinksdrink this cup, yeyou shew forth the Lord's death till his second coming again." Even the death of the Lord of glory is called to remembrance by us now. This is a wonder of wonders; it is the mystery of all mysteries; the mystery of godliness, Christ manifested in the flesh. That indeed is a great mystery, that Christ should come into our flesh, and then, when he is come, that he should die for us. And when yeyou think upon it, I would have you to do it with bitter hearts, for your sins; secondly, with believing hearts also, that though your sins were as scarlet, even twice listed, double dyed, yet his mercy in his death and suffering, yeyou thinking aright upon it, can make them white as snow. YeYou cannot think sufficiently of his mercy, but your fault is that you think over little of his justice. Who can think enough of that which is infinite and boundless? Presumption comes not through thinking over much of the mercy of God, but because men thinks him to be all mercy, and @@ -59,6 +57,6 @@ to have no justice. But if we will come with sorrowful hearts for sin, and with believing hearts to get mercy in Christ, then we shall not miss to get pardon.
Remember of the death of Christ with thankful hearts also, and remember it with a purpose to obey his will hereafter; for if thouyou have not this purpose, thouyou but deceives thyself, thydeceive yourself, your humiliation is but hypocrisy, and thyyour faith is but presumption.
a/src/0022.pm b/src/0022.pm index e96e69d..b12a917 100644 --- a/src/0022.pm +++ b/src/0022.pm @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ hearts also, that though your sins were as scarlet, even twice listed, double dyed, yet his mercy in his death and suffering, ye thinking aright upon it, can make them white as snow. Ye cannot think sufficiently of his mercy, but your fault is that you think over little of his justice. Who can think enough of that whilkwhich is infinite and boundless? Presumption comes not through thinking over much of the mercy of God, but because men thinks him to be all mercy, and to have no justice. But if we will come with sorrowful hearts for sin, and with believing hearts to get mercy in Christ, then we shall not miss to get pardon.
a/src/0022.pm b/src/0022.pm index c8de952..e96e69d 100644 --- a/src/0022.pm +++ b/src/0022.pm @@ -54,10 +54,9 @@ dyed, yet his mercy in his death and suffering, ye thinking aright upon it, can make them white as snow. Ye cannot think sufficiently of his mercy, but your fault is that you think over little of his justice. Who can think enough of that whilk is infinite and boundless? Presumption comes not through thinking over much of the mercy of God, but because men thinks him to be all mercy, and to have no justice. But if we will come with sorrowful hearts for sin, and with believing hearts to get mercy in Christ, then we shall not miss to get pardon.
Remember of the death of Christ with thankful hearts also, and remember it with a purpose to obey his will hereafter; for if thou have not this purpose, thou
a/src/0022.pm b/src/0022.pm index 13cf540..c8de952 100644 --- a/src/0022.pm +++ b/src/0022.pm @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ dyed, yet his mercy in his death and suffering, ye thinking aright upon it, can make them white as snow. Ye cannot think sufficiently of his mercy, but your fault is that you think over little of his justice. Who can think enough of that whilk is infinite and boundless? Presumption comes not through thinking over ◊scottish{mickle#large|much|great}much of the mercy of God, but because men thinks him to be all mercy, and to have no justice. But if we will come with sorrowful hearts for sin, and with believing hearts to get mercy in Christ, then we shall not miss to get pardon.
a/src/0022.pm b/src/0022.pm index 850f5db..13cf540 100644 --- a/src/0022.pm +++ b/src/0022.pm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Beloved, there has been divers preparations and examinations for this action; therefore lose not all these for not taking heed to yourselves now. Therefore return your spirits from all external things, and only meditate on the death of Christ. I know there are different degrees of knowledge; yet let these who has the meanest measure of knowledge come here with honest hearts, and they sallshall not go empty away at this time. And because, as it is ◊ref{Josh.6.10} when the people went about the walls of Jericho, they were commanded [to be silent], for this end, first, that whatever obloquies the enemies spake of them, they should @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ break through the customary restraint.} Secondly, he would have them to be silent, because by conference they might be interrupted from going on, or their order broken. And specially he would have them to be silent, because their faith was to be exercised now; and faith works best when the tongue is silent. Even so I sallshall permit you to silence, that your faith may work the better. I sallshall only speak some few things to you, to meditate upon, as the Lord sallshall think fittest to dispose.
Beloved, we do not pray "that Almighty God would sanctify this bread and wine, @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ dyed, yet his mercy in his death and suffering, ye thinking aright upon it, can make them white as snow. Ye cannot think sufficiently of his mercy, but your fault is that you think over little of his justice. Who can think enough of that whilk is infinite and boundless? Presumption comes not through thinking over mickle◊scottish{mickle#large|much|great} of the mercy of God, but because men thinks him to be all mercy, and to have no justice. But if we will come with sorrowful hearts for sin, and with believing hearts to get mercy in Christ, then we sallshall not miss to get pardon.
Remember of the death of Christ with thankful hearts also, and remember it with
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Beloved, there has been divers preparations and examinations for this action; therefore lose not all these for not taking heed to yourselves now. Therefore return your spirits from all external things, and only meditate on the death of Christ. I know there are different degrees of knowledge; yet let these who has the meanest measure of knowledge come here with honest hearts, and they sall not go empty away at this time. And because, as it is Josh. vi.,*◊ref{Josh.6.10} when the people went about the walls of Jericho, they were commanded [to be silent], for this end, first, that whatever obloquies the enemies spake of them, they should not take heed to them; for before the seventh day were at an end, they should repent all their speeches, and therefore he would not have their minds withdrawn by answering them.tthem.◊footnote{The obloquies and aspersions to which the author and his brethren were constantly subjected during the course of these great affairs is once and again referred to in no ambiguous terms throughout this collection. He here informs us how he endeavoured to meet them. "He was," says Baillie, "silent under misconstructions;" although on one remarkable occasion, in the Assembly of 1642, his indignant feelings compelled him to break through the customary restraint.} Secondly, he would have them to be silent, because by conference they might be interrupted from going on, or their order broken. And specially he would have them to be silent, because their faith was to be exercised now; and faith works best when the tongue is silent. Even so I sall permit you to silence, that your faith may work the better. I sall only speak some few things to you, to meditate upon, as the Lord sall think fittest to dispose.,
Beloved, we do not pray ¢ that"that Almighty God would sanctify this bread and wine, by his word and Spirit, that it may be the body and blood of Christ;" but we say only that when it is sanctified by the word and prayer, then it is the sacrament representing the body and blood of Christ to them who believe: and to those who has faith we may say so. So after the bread and wine is sanctified we have* Verse 10.
t The obloquies and aspersions to which the author and his brethren were constantly subjected during the course of these great affairs is once and again referred to in no ambiguous terms throughout this collection. He here informs us how he endeavoured to meet them. ¢ He was," says Baillie, "silent under misconstructions;" although on one remarkable occasion, in the Assembly of 1642, his indignant feelings compelled him to break through the customary restraint.
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166 FIRST TABLE. warrant to say, ¢ This"This is my body, broken for you." ¢ This"This is the cup of the new testament in my blood, shed for the remission of the sins of many;" but we have no warrant to pray that God by his almighty power would sanctify the elements to be the body and blood of Christ.*Christ.◊footnote{The most flagrant and alarming change in the Scottish Liturgy, bringing it into near conformity to Rome, occurs in the following sentence in the Communion Service:--- "We most humbly beseech thee, and of thy almighty goodness vouchsafe to bless and sanctify with thy word and Holy Spirit these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine, ◊it{that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly beloved Son}."}
Meditate upon the death of Christ now, and think seriously upon it. There is not a better thought for you than the last words of the sacrament. ¢ So"So often as ye eat this bread, and drinks this cup, ye shew forth the Lord's death till his second coming again." Even the death of the Lord of glory is called to remembrance by us now. This is a wonder of wonders; it is the mystery of all mysteries; the mystery of godliness, Christ manifested in the flesh. That indeed is a great mystery, that Christ should come into our flesh, and then, @@ -84,59 +62,4 @@ pardon. Remember of the death of Christ with thankful hearts also, and remember it with a purpose to obey his will hereafter; for if thou have not this purpose, thou but deceives thyself, thy humiliation is but hypocrisy, and thy faith is but presumption.* The most flagrant and alarming change in the Scottish Liturgy, bringing it into near conformity to Rome, occurs in the following sentence in the Communion Service:--- We most humbly beseech thee, and of thy almighty goodness vouchsafe to bless and sanctify with thy word and Holy
Spirit these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine, that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly beloved Son."'
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I beseech you, beloved, to gather all your thoughts together now, and trouble them not with thinking upon other things; think upon that whilk ye are about now; have the sense of God's presence; and let your souls be present, and think it not enough for you to be present in your bodies. I told you that silence was enjoined to thir people, that their hearts might be exercised about faith, for it was only by faith that these walls were tane down; so I would have you to be exercised about faith now. For us to tell what were the things whereupon they exercised their faith, we canriot, for that is not revealed; but I may say there were variety of purposes into their hearts: for all the thirteen times they did compass the walls, there would be enough to hold their minds well exercised. And if ye yourselves will consider what ye have been hearing and doing thir years bygane, ye need not to want enough to think upon; albeit we should speak no more to you than was spoken at the beginning, ye need not to want matter of meditation.
Whatever was the matter of their meditation, they might have thought upon that whilk is set down in that Heb., xi.;* and we may think also upon these; and we will find it not to be unprofitable for us. ¢ By faith we believe that the ~world was made;" we have no warrant to believe that it was created but only by the word of God. And so they might have thought, God has made all the world, whilk is greater nor Jericho, and he can destroy it again when he pleases; and so may not he also destroy this strong city for us? And if we think right upon it, it may put us in hope of two very great works; first, of our regeneration; second, of our resurrection. When he created the world, he did no more but spake a word, "Let there be light," and it was so; and so if the Lord sall but say the word, * Let there be light into our dark souls," it must be so also. 2. He says that at that last day he sall raise up these ugly bodies of ours, and instead of corruption they sall put on
* Verse 3.
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1. [TABLE.]
Beloved, there has been divers preparations and examinations for this action; therefore lose not all these for not taking heed to yourselves now. Therefore return your spirits from all external things, and only meditate on the death of Christ. I know there are different degrees of knowledge; yet let these who has the meanest measure of knowledge come here with honest hearts, and they sall not go empty away at this time. And because, as it is Josh. vi.,* when the people went about the walls of Jericho, they were commanded [to be silent], for this end, first, that whatever obloquies the enemies spake of them, they should not take heed to them; for before the seventh day were at an end, they should repent all their speeches, and therefore he would not have their minds withdrawn by answering them.t Secondly, he would have them to be silent, because by conference they might be interrupted from going on, or their order broken. And specially he would have them to be silent, because their faith was to be exercised now; and faith works best when the tongue is silent. Even so I sall permit you to silence, that your faith may work the better. I sall only speak some few things to you, to meditate upon, as the Lord sall think fittest to dispose. ,
Beloved, we do not pray ¢ that Almighty God would sanctify this bread and wine, by his word and Spirit, that it may be the body and blood of Christ;" but we say only that when it is sanctified by the word and prayer, then it is the sacrament representing the body and blood of Christ to them who believe: and to those who has faith we may say so. So after the bread and wine is sanctified we have
* Verse 10.
t The obloquies and aspersions to which the author and his brethren were constantly subjected during the course of these great affairs is once and again referred to in no ambiguous terms throughout this collection. He here informs us how he endeavoured to meet them. ¢ He was," says Baillie, "silent under misconstructions;" although on one remarkable occasion, in the Assembly of 1642, his indignant feelings compelled him to break through the customary restraint.
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warrant to say, ¢ This is my body, broken for you." ¢ This is the cup of the new testament in my blood, shed for the remission of the sins of many;" but we have no warrant to pray that God by his almighty power would sanctify the elements to be the body and blood of Christ.*
Meditate upon the death of Christ now, and think seriously upon it. There is not a better thought for you than the last words of the sacrament. ¢ So often as ye eat this bread, and drinks this cup, ye shew forth the Lord's death till his second coming again." Even the death of the Lord of glory is called to remembrance by us now. This is a wonder of wonders; it is the mystery of all mysteries; the mystery of godliness, Christ manifested in the flesh. That indeed is a great mystery, that Christ should come into our flesh, and then, when he is come, that he should die for us. And when ye think upon it, I would have you to do it with bitter hearts, for your sins; secondly, with believing hearts also, that though your sins were as scarlet, even twice listed, double dyed, yet his mercy in his death and suffering, ye thinking aright upon it, can make them white as snow. Ye cannot think sufficiently of his mercy, but your fault is that you think over little of his justice. Who can think enough of that whilk is infinite and boundless? Presumption comes not through thinking over mickle of the mercy of God, but because men thinks him to be all mercy, and to have no justice. But if we will come with sorrowful hearts for sin, and with believing hearts to get mercy in Christ, then we sall not miss to get pardon.
Remember of the death of Christ with thankful hearts also, and remember it with a purpose to obey his will hereafter; for if thou have not this purpose, thou but deceives thyself, thy humiliation is but hypocrisy, and thy faith is but presumption.
* The most flagrant and alarming change in the Scottish Liturgy, bringing it into near conformity to Rome, occurs in the following sentence in the Communion Service:--- We most humbly beseech thee, and of thy almighty goodness vouchsafe to bless and sanctify with thy word and Holy
Spirit these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine, that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly beloved Son."'
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2. TABLE.
I beseech you, beloved, to gather all your thoughts together now, and trouble them not with thinking upon other things; think upon that whilk ye are about now; have the sense of God's presence; and let your souls be present, and think it not enough for you to be present in your bodies. I told you that silence was enjoined to thir people, that their hearts might be exercised about faith, for it was only by faith that these walls were tane down; so I would have you to be exercised about faith now. For us to tell what were the things whereupon they exercised their faith, we canriot, for that is not revealed; but I may say there were variety of purposes into their hearts: for all the thirteen times they did compass the walls, there would be enough to hold their minds well exercised. And if ye yourselves will consider what ye have been hearing and doing thir years bygane, ye need not to want enough to think upon; albeit we should speak no more to you than was spoken at the beginning, ye need not to want matter of meditation.
Whatever was the matter of their meditation, they might have thought upon that whilk is set down in that Heb., xi.;* and we may think also upon these; and we will find it not to be unprofitable for us. ¢ By faith we believe that the ~world was made;" we have no warrant to believe that it was created but only by the word of God. And so they might have thought, God has made all the world, whilk is greater nor Jericho, and he can destroy it again when he pleases; and so may not he also destroy this strong city for us? And if we think right upon it, it may put us in hope of two very great works; first, of our regeneration; second, of our resurrection. When he created the world, he did no more but spake a word, "Let there be light," and it was so; and so if the Lord sall but say the word, * Let there be light into our dark souls," it must be so also. 2. He says that at that last day he sall raise up these ugly bodies of ours, and instead of corruption they sall put on
* Verse 3.