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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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4. Witnesses will rise up against these more than any other sinners. The Heathen will come in against them, as our Saviour speaks; The men of ⟨p. 43⟩Nineveh shall rise up against this generation and condemn it. The Queen of the South shall rise up and condemn it, Matth. 12.41. The Heathen, who have gone further by the Light of Nature, than many who have lived under the Light of the Gospel, will come in as Witnesses against them.
4. Witnesses will rise up against these more than any other sinners. The Heathen will come in against them, as our Saviour speaks; The men of ⟨p. 43⟩Niniveh shall rise up against this generation and condemn it. The Queen of the South shall rise up and condemn it, Matth. 12.41. The Heathen, who have gone further by the Light of Nature, than many who have lived under the Light of the Gospel, will come in as Witnesses against them.
The Jew may come in as a witness also, who under the darker Light of the Law, hath out-stripped many that were under a Gospel ministration.
The good Angels may come in as Witnesses; who having been present in the Church-assemblies, have heard the Calls there given to Sinners to repent.