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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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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⟩found some Time, though it had been when I should have slept, if my heart had been but set upon it.
The seventh Excuse. Little did I think to have seen this Day: • did not Believe that ever God would be so severe: I thought his Threatenings had been but to keep men in awe: and I suspected either that the Scripture was not his word, or else I thought he would be better than his word. I thought all that I heard of another life had been uncertain; and therefore was loth to let go a certainty for an uncertainty, and lose my present pleasures which I had in hand, for the hopes of that which I never did see.
The seventh Excuse. Little did I think to have seen this Day: • did not Believe that ever God would be so severe: I thought his Threatnings had been but to keep men in awe: and I suspected either that the Scripture was not his word, or else I thought he would be better than his word. I thought all that I heard of another life had been uncertain; and therefore was loth to let go a certainty for an uncertainty, and lose my present pleasures which I had in hand, for the hopes of that which I never did see.