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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 7: Quest. What may gracious Parents best do, for the Conversion of those Children whose wi…
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2. The next is Amnon, guilty of Incest with his own Sister, yea and this incest committed with rape. 2 Sam. 13.14. Amnon, a person to be anathematized by the whole Congregation, Deut. 27.22. and to be punished with Death. Lev. 20.17. But what doth David do in the Case? The Text saith: When King David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. ver. 21.
2. The next is Amnon, guilty of Incest with his own Sister, yea and this incest committed with rape. 2 Sam. 13.14. Amnon, a person to be anathematiz'd by the whole Congregation, Deut. 27.22. and to be punisht with Death. Lev. 20.17. But what doth David do in the Case? The Text saith: When King David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. ver. 21.
1. But was that all? Alas, what was that, but a great flash, and noise without a Bullet? and this Absalom, that ravished Virgins own Brother, deeply resents, and is resolved upon a Just revenge. ver. 22. Certainly the incestuous Son, might justly have expected more, than a sudden Aguish fit of hot displeasure of a Father. viz. The danger of the Law, the indignation of a Brother, the shame, and out-cry of the World.
1. But was that all? Alas, what was that, but a great flash, and noise without a Bullet? and this Absalom, that ravisht Virgins own Brother, deeply resents, and is resolv'd upon a Just revenge. ver. 22. Certainly the incestuous Son, might justly have expected more, than a suddain Aguish fit of hot displeasure of a Father. viz. The danger of the Law, the indignation of a Brother, the shame, and out-cry of the World.