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Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternity, and mans…Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternitie, and mans…
Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternity, and mans humanity, III. The plantation of the righteous / by T.H.Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternitie, and mans humanitie, III. The plantation of the righteous / by T.H.
London: printed by M.P. for John Stafford, 1638London: printed by M.P. for Iohn Stafford, 1638
Sermon 1: THE WRATH of God against SINNERS.Sermon 1: THE VVRATH of God against SINNERS.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
therefore I will invent a way th• it may not be lawful to me• When Saint Paul dispute• with the Athenians, divers o• them encountered with Paul• they had Argument for Argument against him, that th• Lord Jesus Christ was no• the Saviour of the world▪ This is the general course […] a carnal heart, if it may d• vise a course against it, h• is contented; if so be the• can be no prevailing again it, it sends far and nee• and gathereth Town a• Country to seek it; as […] ⟨p. 35⟩Usurer that is resolved to continue in it, he goes to forty Ministers about it; and if he be told of the sin of it, he will say he will think of it; he will search the devils Skull, but he will invent some carnal Argument; he conferred with such a man, and he told him such reasons, but they blew away as a blast of wind. Mark my Brethren, the Lord sent Moses to convince Pharaoh, and when Pharaoh said, I will not let the people go, God saith, Lay down thy rod, and it shall be turned into a Serpent: what doth Pharaoh then? he doth not sit down under the miracle, but sends for Magicians, and they cast down ⟨p. 36⟩rods, and they were turned into Serpents also: but Moses his rod devoured theirs; yet Pharaoh hardened his heart. So when the Word comes home, this Word I must yield to, this Truth I must entertain, and when the Word cometh by a mighty power, they send for Magicians, carnal Arguments, though the Arguments out of the Word doth eat up all, yet a carnal heart doth go away satisfied, and it shall be so.
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