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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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Of Exhortation, to mourn for the Sins of the Wicked among whom §. 39 Use 3 we live.
Of Exhortation, to mourn for the Sins of the Wicked among whom §. 39 Ʋse 3 we live.
1. If we mourn not for others Sins, theirs become ours. We are justly to be accounted approvers of others Sins, if we enter not this Protestation of Mourning against them. If sin be not laid to thy heart (thou knowing it) it will in some degree be laid to thy Charge. When the Corinthians mourned for the sin committed among them, the Apostle pronounced them clear of this matter, 2 Cor. 7.11. Their Hatred of it did not clear them till followed with mourning for it.
1. If we mourn not for others Sins, theirs become ours. We are justly to be accounted approvers of others Sins, if we enter not this Protestation of Mourning against them. If sin be not layd to thy heart (thou knowing it) it will in some degree be layd to thy Charge. When the Corinthians mourned for the sin committed among them, the Apostle pronounc'd them clear of this matter, 2 Cor. 7.11. Their Hatred of it did not clear them till followed with mourning for it.
§. 40 2. Mourning for others sins, is the way to awaken thy Conscience for thine own former Sins. It will mind thee what thou hast done in thy former unconverted state. It will bring to remembrance, as Paul speaks Tit. 3.3. what thou didst in times past, and cause a fresh bleeding in thy Soul for Sin.