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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 8
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Poor sinners, I beseech you in the fear of God, the next time ⟨p. 73⟩you have any such motions from the Spirit of God, to Repent, and Believe, and Break off your sins, and the Occasions of them, consider then what a mercy is set before you; and how it will confound you at the day of Judgement, to have all these motions brought in against you, and that the Spirit of Grace it self should be your Condemner! Alas, that men should choose their own Destruction, and wilfully choose it! and that the foreknowledge of these things should not move them to relent.
So much concerning the witness that will be brought in against the sinner.
5. The fifth Evidence that will be given in against the sinner, will be, The Instruments and Effects. You know among men, if a man be found murdered by the highway, and you are found standing ⟨p. 74⟩by him with a bloody sword in your hand; especially if there were a former dissension between you, it will be an Evidence that will prove a strong presumption, that you were the Murderer: But if the fact be certain by other Evidence, then many such things may be brought for aggravation of the fault.
5. The fifth Evidence that will be given in against the sinner, will be, The Instruments and Effects. You know among men, if a man be found murthered by the highway, and you are found standing ⟨p. 74⟩by him with a bloody sword in your hand; especially if there were a former dissention between you, it will be an Evidence that will prove a strong presumption, that you were the Murderer: But if the fact be certain by other Evidence, then many such things may be brought for aggravation of the fault.