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A40888	LXXX sermons preached at the parish-church of St. Mary Magdalene Milk-street, London whereof nine of them not till now published / by the late eminent and learned divine Anthony Farindon ... ; in two volumes, with a large table to both.; Sermons. Selections. 1672	Farindon, Anthony, 1598-1658.	1672 (1672)	Wing F429_VARIANT; ESTC R37327	1,664,550	1,226

LXXX SERMONS PREACHED At the Parish-CHURCH of St Mary Magdalene Milk-street LONDON WHEREOF Nine of them not till now Published By the late Eminent and Learned Divine ANTHONY FARINDON B. D. Divinity Reader of his MAJESTIES Chappel-Royal of Windsor The Second Edition Revised and Corrected by the Authors Manuscripts In Two Volumes With a Large TABLE to both LONDON Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Richard Marriott MDCLXXII XXXII SERMONS PREACHED At the Parish-CHURCH of St. Mary Magdalene Milk-street LONDON To which is Annexed A SERMON PREACHED At the Funeral of Sir GEORGE WHITMORE Knight sometime Lord Mayor of the City The First Volume By the late Eminent and Learned Divine B. D. Divinity Reader of his MAJESTIES Chappel-Royal of Windsor Aug. l. 3. de Trin. in Prooemio Nolo Lectorem meum mihi esse deditum Correctorem nolo sibi PHILIP 1.15 18. 15. Some preach Christ even of envy and strife and some also of good will 18. Notwithstanding every way whether in pretense or in truth Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce and will rejoyce The Second Edition LONDON Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Richard Marriott MDCLXXII TO The Right Worshipful and Much Honoured JOHN ROBINSON Esq Alderman of the City of LONDON SIR WHen I had yeilded up my Modesty or rather my Consciousness of my too many and too great defects as a spoil to the wills and importunity of others and had hearkened to them so far as to venture and expose these Sermons and my self to censure I did then without any deliberation or study tell my self to whom they were due Nor did any thought interpose it self but this one That they were not worth your eye or owning I had o●●● res●●ved to have sent them naked into the world without any name before them but my own and could have been well content to have left that out also for I am not over-proud of them But then I conceived that though they ●●ould speak but little for themselves yet they might for me who dare not do so much for them and at least be a witness or Manifesto of my deep apprehension of your many noble favours and great charity to me and mine when the sharpness of the weather and the roughness of the times had blown all from us and well-near left us naked And to this end with all heartiness and height of thankfulness I here present them and humbly put them into your hands that when you turn them over you may read something besides my Imperfections even that Truth which will make you happy and with it my Gratitude I would not be the Grave of that Charity which can never die but when we are dead will follow us And I thank God I understand a Benefit and can behold it in all its circumstances and to me it appeareth fresher and fairer every day putting me in mind from whence it came and by what hands it was conveyed and it filleth me with Prayers and Praises and Gratulations and I bless God and cry Grace Grace unto the hand and instrument Worthy Sir this is the fairest and best return that my Poverty can make and I nothing doubt but you will look upon it as the fairest and best for this I can make and by the blessing of God you want no other I see my self deeply obliged to you and by your favour to many other Noble and Religious Gentlemen and I have but the same payment for all which I will ever pay for a thankful man is alwayes in debt even to my last payment when I shall render up my soul to God that gave it The same God who put it into your hearts fill your hearts with that Joy which is the purchase of Charity I cannot end but with my hearty prayer to the God of Blessings for a blessing on you and your whole family which is the daily prayer of SIR Yours obliged to serve and honour you ANT. FARINDON April 21. 1657. THE PREFACE THat the way of man is not in himself Jer. 10.23 that it is not in him to direct his steps in that way which he chalketh out I have found true in my self and am made an instance of it in the truest and most natural sense of the words That our purposes sink and fail almost as soon as they are up that in matters of indifferency and would it were not so in those of the greatest concernment we think we resolve when we do but think And what strength hath such a thought against a Friend and Importunity I saw well enough the hazard before me which I was to run I knew there was too much of this kind of work abroad in the world already and if there were none yet there would be too much by mine I saw the roughness of the times and the uncertainty of the weather and what a weak and thin bottom I put out in and could not hope for that security abroad which my cell and silence will scarcely afford me I could not be ignorant how many several winds and out of several coasts might meet and spend themselves against me I conceived in my self that it was in vain to hope to charm the Reader and to as little purpose to court him into a favourable opinion as it was for Xerxes to fetter the Hellespont or to write letters to mount Athos For after all pretenses all apologies all insinuations he will be the same and think and judge as he please when we have said what we can All this I foresaw or thought I did and that Apologies were like complaints in this were never welcome no not then when they were necessary Which was enough one would think to have strengthened and re-inforced my first thoughts and so fixed them against all other temptations all forein assaults whatsoever But so it is I see them now shaken and turned another way even to that which I was most afraid of and must now prepare and arm my self against I that suffered my self to be perswaded into the danger have now but one task to undergo and that is to perswade and work my self into an unmoveable patience if it overtake me and to sit in silence when the noise is loudest when those hailstones of censures fly about me Yet thus much I have to say for my self that had I not placed a higher esteem on other mens judgements then mine own had I not been advised so to do by some in whose judgement I was ever willing to rest and yet sometimes Affection getteth over it even in the wisest and had I not been by nature of an easie and ductil disposition too apt to be drawn out at length to any purpose which hath no evil upon it by the hand and direction of those whose worth and goodness have wrought themselves an interest in me had not the very name of friend been more powerful with me then my own thoughts I who could never yet shoulder it in a throng but had rather quit my place