The Works of Joseph Hall Sermons Author:Joseph Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: strikes on all sides: we know not which of our turns shall be the next: we are sure we carry deaths enough within us. If we bo ready, our day cannot come too soo... more »n. Stir up thy soul to a heavenly cheerfulness, like thy Saviour: know but whither thou art going ; and thou canst not but, with divine Paul, say from our Saviour's mouth, even in tliis sense, It is a more bkssed thing to give, than to receive. God cannot abide an unwilling guest : give up that spirit to him, which he hath given thee; and he will both receive what thou givest, and give it thee again, with that glory and happiness, which can never be conceived, and shall never be ended. Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Gloria in excelsis Deo. SERMON III. THE IMPRESS OF GOD. IN TWO SERMONS, IEACHKD AT THE COURT, IN THE YEARS 1611, 1612. PART I. ZECHARIAH, XIV. 20. In that (fay shall be written upon the bridles (or, bells) of the horse.t, Holiness unto the Lord: and the pots of the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. If any man wonder whither this discourse can tend, of horses and bells, and pots, and bowls for the altar; let him consider that of Tertulhan, Ratio divina in medulla est, non in superficie. These Horses, if they be well managed, will prove like those fiery horses of Elijah, to carry us up to our heaven; 2 Kings ii. 11: these Bells, like those golden bells of Aaron's robe; Exodus xxxix. 25: these pots,- like that Olla pulmenti of the prophets, after I!I i-i in'- meal; 2 Kings iv. 41: and these Bowls, like that blessed and fruitful navel of the church; Cant. vii. 2. St. Paul asks, Doth God take care for oxen ? So may I here, Doth God take care for horses ? Surely, to provide for them, not to prophesy of them ; much less of their bells, the unnecessary ornaments ...« less