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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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3. The very effects also of mens sins will be an Evidence against them. The wife and children of a Drunkard are Impoverished by his sin: His family and the neighbourhood is disquieted by him. These will be so many Evidences against him. So will the abuse of his own Reason: The enticing of others to the same sin, and hardening them by his example.
3. The very effects also of mens sins will be an Evidence against them. The wife and children of a Drunkard are Impoverished by his sin: His family and the neighborhod is disquieted by him. These will be so many Evidences against him. So will the abuse of his own Reason: The enticing of others to the same sin, and hardening them by his example.
One covetous unmerciful Landlord doth keep a hundred, or many hundred persons or families in so great necessities, and care and labour, that they are tempted by it to overpass the service ⟨p. 80⟩of God, as having scarce time for it, or any room for it in their troubled thoughts; All these miserable families, and persons, and all the souls that are undone by this Temptation, will be so many Evidences against such Oppressors.
Yea, the poor whom they have neglected to relieve, when they might; the sick whom they have neglected to visit, when they might, will all witness then against the unmerciful, Matth. 25.