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Twelve sermons preached upon several occasions. The second volume by Robert South.
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South, Robert, 1634-1716.
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1694
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and the Settlement of worldly Affairs to disturb and confound him and in a word all Things conspire to make his sick Bed grievous and uneasie Nothing can then stand up against all these Ruines and speak Life in the midst of Death but a clear Conscience And the Testimony of that shall make the Comforts of Heaven descend upon his weary Head like a refreshing Dew or Shower upon a parched Ground It shall give him some lively Earnests and secret Anticipations of his approaching Joy It shall bid his Soul go out of the Body undauntedly and lift up its Head with Confidence before Saints and Angels Surely the Comfort which it conveys at this Season is something bigger than the Capacities of Mortality mighty and unspeakable and not to be understood till it comes to be felt And now who would not quit all the Pleasures and Trash and Trifles which are apt to captivate the Heart of Man and pursue the greatest Rigors of Piety and Austerities of a good Life to purchase to himself such a Conscience as at the Hour of Death when all the Friendships of the World shall bid him adieu and the whole Creation turn its Back upon him shall dismiss his Soul and close his Eyes with that blessed Sentence Well done thou good and faithfull Servant enter thou into the Ioy of thy Lord For he whose Conscience enables him to look God in the Face with Confidence here shall be sure to see his Face also with Comfort hereafter Which God of his Mercy grant to us all To whom be rendred and ascribed as is most due all Praise Might Majesty and Dominion both now and for evermore Amen FINIS BOOKS newly printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard A Thenae Oxoniensis Or an exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford from 1500 to the end of 1690. Representing the Birth Fortunes Preferments and Death of all those Authors and Prelates the great Accidents of their Lives with the Fate and Character of their Writings The Work being so Compleat that no Writer of Note of this Nation for near two hundred years past is omitted In Two Volumes in Fol. Twelve Sermons preached upon several Occasions by R. South D. D. Six of them never before printed Vol. First in Octavo Sermons and Discourses upon several Occasions by G. Stradling D. D. late Dean of Chichester Never before printed together with an Account of the Author Dr. Pocock's Commentary on the Prophets Ioel Micah Malachi c. in Fol. A Critical History of the Text and Versions of the New Testament wherein is firmly Established the Truth of those Acts on which the Foundation of Christian Religion is laid In Two Parts By Father Simon of the Oratory Together with a Refutation of such Passages as seem contrary to the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of England in Quarto Newly printed for Randall Taylor Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's Book entitled A Vindication of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity c. Together with a more Necessary Vindication of that Sacred and Prime Article of the Christian Faith from his New Notions and false Explications of it Humbly dedicated to His Admirers and to Himself the Chief of them by a Divine of the Church of England See the First Vol. p. 29 and 30. * Major Iohn Weyer see Ravillac Rediviv The Words of a great Self-opiniator and a bitter Reviler of the Clergy * A Preaching Colonel of the Parliament-Army and a Chief Actor in the Murder of K. Charles the First Notable before for having killed several after Quarter given them by others and using these Words in the doing it Cursed be he who does the work of the Lord negligently He was by Extraction a Butcher's Son and accordingly in his Practices all along more a Butcher than his Father