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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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1. In their Relation to God: they are his Sons. Phil. 2.15. As the Sons of God they are commanded to be blameless, without Rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse Nation. This Relation of Sonship doth as truly make us mourn for the Sins of others, as it engageth us to avoid Sin in our selves. It suffers us not to put up dishonour offered to God our Father with sinful Patience: It makes us quietly to bear our private troubles, but not quietly to suffer the Sufferings of Gods Name.1 Though Moses when with God prayed for the People, yet when with the People he vindicated the honour of God with the Sword.2 Though Job when a Sufferer from God was holily patient; yet when an hearer of the Counsel of his Wife to curse God, he was as holily impatient. A Son of God cannot bear the ⟨p. 118⟩abuses offered to his Father. Saints can no more endure the dishonour done to their heavenly Father, according to that measure of Grace given unto them, than the Angels which are in Heaven do according unto theirs. Jesus wept for Lazarus's death because his Friend, and should not we much more weep for Gods dishonour because our Father? Gods Glory should be dearer to us than our Lives. He that toucheth it, should touch the Apple of our Eye, and that soon makes it water.
1. In their Relation to God: they are his Sons. Phil. 2.15. As the Sons of God they are commanded to be blameless, without Rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse Nation. This Relation of Sonship doth as truly make us mourn for the Sins of others, as it engageth us to avoid Sin in our selves. It suffers us not to put up dishonour offered to God our Father with sinful Patience: It makes us quietly to bear our private troubles, but not quietly to suffer the Sufferings of Gods Name.1 Thô Moses when with God pray'd for the People, yet when with the People he vindicated the honour of God with the Sword.