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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 1: Quest. How is the adherent Vanity of every Condition most effectually abated by Serious…
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whatever Persons may hope or fancy, if they fear not God, nor obey the Voice of his Servants, though they are not at present in trouble like other men, 1but can speak loftily, setting their mouth against the Heavens, and their Tongue walketh through the Earth; though they compass themselves about with some sparks or blaze of Comfort,2 yet this shall they have of Gods hand, they shall lye down in Sorrow.
whatever Persons may hope or fancy, if they fear not God, nor obey the Voice of his Servants, thô they are not at present in trouble like other men, 1but can speak loftily, setting their mouth against the Heavens, and their Tongue walketh through the Earth; thô they compass themselves about with some sparks or blaze of Comfort,2 yet this shall they have of Gods hand, they shall lye down in Sorrow.
- 1Psal. 73.5, &c.
- 2Isa. 50.10, 11.
Now thus when every one is rummaging among heaps of Vanities, that pretend to be good for man upon Earth, will you accept of a Guide to direct you to what cannot but be good for you, and that in every Condition; that shall not only abate the Vanity, but discover the Excellency that is in every Condition? This will be most distinctly done, by an induction of particulars, and setting contrary Conditions one against another, what may be said for, and against each Condition, and how Serious Godliness makes every Condition amiable.