...the almost equally famous passage on God's mercy, which occurs in one of the Christmas sermons ; ' God made Sun and Moon to distinguish seasons, and...fruits were ripe, the first minute, and in heaven it is alwaies Autumne, his mercies are ever in their maturity. . . . He brought light out of darknesse, not...

...shall not know, This is Jesabel — *- ~~ » LXXX Sermons : Sermon XV 114 zAll Times are Cjod's Seasons GOD made Sun and Moon to distinguish seasons, and...fruits were ripe, the first minute, and in heaven it is alwaies Autumne, his mercies are ever in their maturity. We ask pane in quotidi'annm, our daily bread,...

...exquisite passages, in which he dilates on his favorite theme, the boundless and ever-present mercy of God: God made Sun and Moon to distinguish seasons, and day, and night, and we cannoe have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons: But God hath made no decree to distinguish...

...growth and decay meet and are suspended," so in Sermons 6:172, in describing the afterlife, he says, "In paradise, the fruits were ripe, the first minute, and in heaven it is alwaies Autumne." Also in Metem 81-82, he uses the notion of "instant autumnal fruit, simultaneously...

...heaven; and he without, carries his own furnace to hell, his lustful loins to everlasting perdition . . . God made sun and moon to distinguish seasons, and...always autumn, his mercies are ever in their maturity. We ask panem quotidianum, our daily bread, and God never says you should have come yesterday, he never...