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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.
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. Use of Information in sundry Branches.
1. Godliness is Uniform in all times, places, and companies. Saints in the worst of these, keep up their Integrity, and are so far from joining with Sinners in their Sins, that they by lamenting their Sins before the Lord, enter their Protestation against them. A Righteous man is not (as the Swine in a Meadow) clean only in clean places; he will maintain opposition to Sin, in the midst of Inducements to Sin. Lot did so in Sodom. His goodness may justly be suspected that only shows it self in good Places, Companies, and Times.
1. Godliness is Ʋniform in all times, places, and companies. Saints in the worst of these, keep up their Integrity, and are so far from joining with Sinners in their Sins, that they by lamenting their Sins before the Lord, enter their Protestation against them. A Righteous man is not (as the Swine in a Meadow) clean only in clean places; he will maintain opposition to Sin, in the midst of Inducements to Sin. Lot did so in Sodom. His goodness may justly be suspected that only shews it self in good Places, Companies, and Times.
§. 27 2. The greatest Sinners cannot Constrain us to sin. They cannot extort our consent to Sin. Sodom could not, though never so filthy, make Lot so. No external inducement can take from a Godly man either his Peace or Purity. Men may constrain thee to be poor, not impure: The worst Creatures either among Men or Devils cannot take away what is best. The greatest temptation is no plea for committing the least Sin: if we give not away, none can take away our Holiness.
§. 27 2. The greatest Sinners cannot Constrain us to sin. They cannot extort our consent to Sin. Sodom could not, thô never so filthy, make Lot so. No external inducement can take from a Godly man either his Peace or Purity. Men may constrain thee to be poor, not impure: The worst Creatures either among Men or Devils cannot take away what is best. The greatest temptation is no plea for committing the least Sin: if we give not away, none can take away our Holiness.