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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 9
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3. Could you have taken no time from your rest, or eating or at other intermissions? Mans body will not endure so great labours as have no Intermission? And why then might not godliness have been your ease and recreation?
3. Could you have taken no time from your rest, or eating or at other intermissions? Mans body will not endure so great labours as have no Intermission? And why then might not godlyness have been your ease and recreation?
4. Or might you not have minded these things, even when you were about your labour, if you had but a heart to them?
5. At least you might have spent the Lords own Day in hearing, reading, and pondering of these matters, when you were forced to forbore your worldly labours, even by the wholesome Law of the Land: These therefore are all but vain Excuses: and God will shortly make thee speak out, and plainly confess, It was not so much for want of Time, or Helps, or warning, as for want of a heart to use them well. I should have ⟨p. 110⟩found some Time, though it had been when I should have slept, if my heart had been but set upon it.
5. At least you might have spent the Lords own Day in hearing, reading, and pondering of these matters, when you were forced to forbare your worldly labours, even by the wholsom Law of the Land: These therefore are all but vain Excuses: and God will shortly make thee speak out, and plainly confess, It was not so much for want of Time, or Helps, or warning, as for want of a heart to use them well. I should have ⟨p. 110⟩