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Author: Shelford, Robert, 1562 or 3-1627.
Title: Five pious and learned discourses 1. A sermon shewing how we ought to behave our selves in Gods house. 2. A sermon preferring holy charity before faith, hope, and knowledge. 3. A treatise shewing that Gods law, now qualified by the Gospel of Christ, is possible, and ought to be fulfilled of us in this life. 4. A treatise of the divine attributes. 5. A treatise shewing the Antichrist not to be yet come. By Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk priest.
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Print source: Five pious and learned discourses 1. A sermon shewing how we ought to behave our selves in Gods house. 2. A sermon preferring holy charity before faith, hope, and knowledge. 3. A treatise shewing that Gods law, now qualified by the Gospel of Christ, is possible, and ought to be fulfilled of us in this life. 4. A treatise of the divine attributes. 5. A treatise shewing the Antichrist not to be yet come. By Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk priest.
Shelford, Robert, 1562 or 3-1627.
[Cambridge]: Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel] the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1635.
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Sermons, English -- 17th century.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12099.0001.001
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dedication
¶ AD MATREM ACADEMIAM CANTABRIGIENSEM.
encomia
Upon the ensuing Treatises.
¶ Ad virum clarissimum gravissimúmque Magistrum ROBERTUM SHELFORD, presbyterum, de hoc opere quinario praecipitatâ jam aetate suâ edito.
In eruditos Tractatus piissimi doctissimique senis R. SHELFORD presbyteri.
In hunc librum qui quinque exquisitissimos Tractatus continet, à R. SHELFORD summa cum cura elaboratos.
Ad eos qui Authorem pro novatore sunt habituri.
De conjunctione amoris & fidei in Tractatu de charitate piè vindicata.
¶ To the Authour, concerning his learned and pious Treatise of Gods house.
De hoc opere verè Orthodoxo, in Novatores.
A SERMON Shevving How we ought to be∣have our selves in Gods house.
Holinesse becomeeth thy house, O LORD, for ever.
The ten Preachers, OR A SERMON Preferring holy Cha∣ritie before Faith, Hope, & Know∣ledge.
Knowledge puffeth up, but Charitie edifieth.
¶ Almae Matris Academiae carmina Co∣mitialia hanc veritatem attestantia,
A TREATISE Shewing That Gods Law, now qualified by the Gospel of Christ, is possible, and ought to be fulfilled of us in this life.
Theologia amantis Deum, OR A TREATISE OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.
Consectaries.
Gods attributes.
1 Unitie.
Consectaries.
Gods Truth and Intellect.
Consectaries.
Gods Goodnesse.
Consectaries.
Gods Life.
Gods Providence.
Gods Power.
Consectaries.
Gods Perfectnesse.
Consectarie.
Gods Infinitie.
Consectarie.
Gods Eternitie.
A TREATISE Shewing the Anti∣christ not to be yet come, Out of the 2. Chapter of the second Epistle to the Thessalonians.
The two antecedents of Christs coming.
For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sinne be revealed, the sonne of perdition.
The falling away.
Where the falling away is.
The authours of the falling away.
The second Antecedent.
And that man of sinne be revealed, the sonne of perdition.
Antichrist one man.
The description of Antichrist.
And that man of sinne be revealed, that sonne of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he doth sit as God in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
That sonne of perdition, , that sonne of destruction.
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped.
Antichrists seat.
So that he as God doth sit in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?And now ye know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time.
Antichrists originall and seed.
For the mysterie of iniquitie already worketh.
Onely he who now letteth, will let, till he be taken out of the way.
The discoverie of Antichrist.
And then shall that wicked be revealed.
The two Beasts.
Antichrists destruction.
Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his coming.
Whether Antichrist be yet come.
Antichrists warres.
Antichrists furniture.
Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signes, and lying wonders.
And with all deceiveablenesse of un∣righteousnesse in them that perish.
Antichrists nation.
Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should be∣leeve a lie.
Antichrists doctrine.
That they should beleeve a lie.
That all they might be damned, which beleeved not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse.
The signes and prodigies of the worlds end.