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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 9: Quest. What's the danger of a death-bed Repentance? SERMON IX.
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. Gods grace did not wait for his preparations, good moods, good dispositions; (these were all over if ever he had any) but it takes hold of him when at the height of sin, and not only was void of grace, but seemed past grace, i. e. never like to come to it by any ordinary methods.
1. Gods grace did not wait for his preparations, good moods, good dispositions; (these were all over if ever he had any) but it takes hold of him when at the hight of sin, and not only was void of grace, but seemed past grace, i. e. never like to come to it by any ordinary methods.
2. It seized on him and passed by the other, though no worse (that we know of) than himself. Grace makes a difference where none was before: of these two, in the like case, it takes one and leaves the other.
2. It seised on him and passed by the other, though no worse (that we know of) than himself. Grace makes a difference where none was before: of these two, in the like case, it takes one and leaves the other.
II. Pardoning grace, This appears in our Lords answer and carriage to him, vers. 43. He doth not upbraid him with the abominations of his forepast life, his Theft, or Rapine, or Violence, his hardness of Heart, or long Impenitence; but easily, readily, gently receives him, and is so far from denying him a pardon, that he assures him of a present Salvation. To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.