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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…
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.
1. An higher Contempt of God's Authority.
To transgress the Law of God delivered by Angels upon the Mount to Moses, and by Moses to the People, was a Contempt of God's Authority, and received a just recompense of reward, Heb. 2.2.
To transgress the Law of God delivered by Angels upon the Mount to Moses, and by Moses to the People, was a Contempt of God's Authority, and received a just recompence of reward, Heb. 2.2.
How greater Contempt is it to disobey the Gospel which was preached by the Lord himself, as the Apostle there argues? To refuse him that spake from Heaven, is greater Contempt of God's Authority, than to refuse him that spake from Earth, Heb. 12.25.
Rejecting the Gospel, Christ calls it a despising both him and his Father,