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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 5: Quest. How ought we to bewail the Sins of the Places where we live? SERMON V.
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2. In mourning for the sins of the Wicked, advance God in the acknowledgement of his Justice and spotless Righteousness, should he with utmost severity take vengeance upon Offenders. This we shall find also to be the temper of holy Nehemiah in the forementioned Chapter the 9th, and the 33d verse, where mourning for the sins of the People, he clears and acquits God from any injustice in executing his heavyest severities upon sinners.1 Howbeit (saith he) thou art just in all that is brought upon us, for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Say, Lord, I wonder not at the evils that do, but those that do not befall us: Were the fire of thy wrath proportioned to the fuel of our sins, we should be utterly consumed. 'Tis thy Mercy Lord we are not so; Thou wouldst be infinitely just and to be justified if we were so.
2. In mourning for the sins of the Wicked, advance God in the acknowledgment of his Justice and spotless Righteousness, should he with utmost severity take vengeance upon Offenders. This we shall find also to be the temper of holy Nehemiah in the forementioned Chapter the 9th, and the 33d verse, where mourning for the sins of the People, he clears and acquits God from any injustice in executing his heavyest severities upon sinners.1 Howbeit (saith he) thou art just in all that is brought upon us, for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Say, Lord, I wonder not at the evils that doe, but those that do not befall us: Were the fire of thy wrath proportion'd to the fewel of our sins, we should be utterly consumed. 'Tis thy Mercy Lord we are not so; Thou wouldst be infinitely just and to be justifi'd if we were so.