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The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Sermon 15: Of the cause of Inward Trouble, and how a Christian should behave himself when Inward a…
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1Do not say, Hast thou found me O my enemy? or as the wicked one, Art thou come to torment us before our time? But as thou lovest thy soul, take all I say in good part, for God knows I speak out of tender respect to your eternal good. Consider then,
- 1Sic mihi semper contingat tractare & beare amicos non dulcibus verbis sed sanis terroribus Bern.
1. The innumerable number of sins thou standest guilty of, Ps. 19.12. Who knows the errors of his life? Methinks there is no sad sight in the world but the sinner in his sins.
Suppose you had seen Herod covered over with worms, alas what is this to one worm of Conscience.
Suppose you had seen every member in the Senate run upon Caesar to give him a stab, would not you have given him over for dead a thousand times? Brethren, every sin you commit is an envenomed knife to stab you at your very heart.