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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 14: Quest. How to manage secret Prayer, that it may be prevalent with God to the comfort an…
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3. Keep Conscience tender of, and clean from, secret sins. With what face can we go to a friend to whom we have given any secret affronts, and will ye be so bold as to come before the God of heaven, when he knows ye maintain some secret lust in your heart.1 Darest thou to bring a Delilah with thee into this sacred closet. True is that of Tertullian, Quantum à praeceptis, tantum ab auribus Dei longè sumus. He that turns his ear from God's precepts, must stop his mouth in the dust, if God turn his holy ears from his cries. When our secret sins are in the light of his countenance, we may rather expect to be consumed by his anger and troubled by his wrath.2
3. Keep Conscience tender of, and clean from, secret sins. With what face can we go to a friend to whom we have given any secret affronts, and will ye be so bold as to come before the God of heaven, when he knows ye maintain some secret lust in your heart.1 Darest thou to bring a Dalilah with thee into this sacred closet. True is that of Tertullian, Quantum à praeceptis, tantum ab auribus Dei longè sumus. He that turns his ear from God's precepts, must stop his mouth in the dust, if God turn his holy ears from his cries. When our secret sins are in the light of his countenance, we may rather expect to be consumed by his anger and troubled by his wrath.2
- 1De Orat. p. 213. Prov. 28.9.
- 2Psal. 90.7, 8.