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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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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.
So a twofold Evidence will be brought against the sinner from these things. One to prove him guilty of the fact: the other to Aggravate the fault, and prove that his sin was very great.
For the former. 1. The very creatures which sinners abused to sin, may be brought in against them to their Conviction and Condemnation. For though these creatures shall be consumed with the last destroying Fire, which shall consume all the world, yet they shall have a Being in the ⟨p. 75⟩