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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 2: The Case I am to discourse of this Morning, is this: Quest. Wherein, and wherefore, the…
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Sodom is here instanced in by our Saviour, as being the most notorious Sinners among all the Heathens, worse than Tire and Sidon before mentioned, or any Heathen City, and yet shall fare better than Capernaum, though none of Sodom's sins be charged by our Saviour upon it. But they repented not under the means of Grace and Salvation: Because they repented not, saith the Text: this was their sin.
Sodom is here instanc'd in by our Saviour, as being the most notorious Sinners among all the Heathens, worse than Tire and Sidon before mention'd, or any Heathen City, and yet shall fare better than Capernaum, though none of Sodom's sins be charged by our Saviour upon it. But they repented not under the means of Grace and Salvation: Because they repented not, saith the Text: this was their sin.
Q. But what is this Impenitency under the Gospel?
A. 1. It is not all hardness of Heart, that is Impenitency: many good Christians may still find something of it; but it is when men harden their own hearts, Heb. 3.8. which are two different things.