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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 1: Quest. How may we give Christ a satisfying Account, why we attend upon the Ministry of…
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Quest. How may we give Christ a satisfying Account, why we attend upon the Ministry of the Word? SERMON I.
MATTH. XI. 9. But what went ye out for to see?
Could I Preface this Exercise with any thing, which through Grace would force its own Application, and lye lieger in your Consciences, to mingle with every Sermon you shall hear; that these Sermons may influence your Lives, so that your profiting (though you modestly veil it, yet may shine through the veil, and) may appear unto all men, so as to commend Religion in them who are prejudiced against it, and to encourage those who have made some entrance into it; then you and I, when we shall meet in Glory, shall bless God for this Exercise.
COuld I Preface this Exercise with any thing, which through Grace would force its own Application, and lye lieger in your Consciences, to mingle with every Sermon you shall hear; that these Sermons may influence your Lives, so that your profiting (though you modestly vail it, yet may shine through the vail, and) may appear unto all men, so as to commend Religion in them who are prejudiced against it, and to encourage those who have made some entrance into it; then you and I, when we shall meet in Glory, shall bless God for this Exercise.