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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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§. 7 3. They that mourn for others Sins, especially the Sins of those they most love, must mourn more for their Sins, than their Afflictions and outward Troubles. They must be more troubled for the poysonful root of Sin, than for the Branches and Fruits of Sufferings that spring from the Root. We must more mourn for the sin of a Child, than for the sickness of a Child. More lay to heart what our Children have done, than what they have undergone: more for their Impiety, than for their Poverty: more because they have left God, than because their Trades or Estates have left them: more for fear they died in Sin, than because they died. The Troubles of the outward man must not so afflict us, as the Unrenewedness of their Hearts and Natures. To be afflicted for the death of thy Child's Body, and not for his Soul-death in Sin, is as if a fond Parent, should when his Child is drowned, only lament the loss of the Child's Coat and Garment, and not for the loss of the Child's Person.
§. 7 3. They that mourn for others Sins, especially the Sins of those they most love, must mourn more for their Sins, than their Afflictions and outward Troubles. They must be more troubled for the poysonful root of Sin, than for the Branches and Fruits of Sufferings that spring from the Root. We must more mourn for the sin of a Child, than for the sickness of a Child. More lay to heart what our Children have done, than what they have undergone: more for their Impiety, than for their Poverty: more because they have left God, than because their Trades or Estates have left them: more for fear they dy'd in Sin, than because they dy'd. The Troubles of the outward man must not so afflict us, as the Unrenewedness of their Hearts and Natures. To be afflicted for the death of thy Child's Body, and not for his Soul-death in Sin, is as if a fond Parent, should when his Child is drown'd, only lament the loss of the Child's Coat and Garment, and not for the loss of the Child's Person.
§. 8 4. We ought to bewail the Sins of others according to the Proportion of the Sins of the times and places where we live. When Sin grows impudent, and hath a brazen brow, when 'tis declared as Sodom,