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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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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.
Answ. He that will not know his misery by believing to prevent it, shall know it by feeling to endure it▪ You were told and told again what your unbelief ⟨p. 111⟩would bring you to. Did Gods word make Heaven and Earth? Doth it support them, and secure them▪ And is not his word sufficient security for you to have trusted your souls upon? Did you know where was any better security to be had? and where was any surer ground for your confidence? And did you think so basely and blasphemously of God, that he would falsify his word, lest such as you should suffer? and that he was fain to rule the world by a Lye? Did God make the world so easily? and can he not Govern it by true and righteous means▪ what need God to say that which he will not do, to awe sinners? Can he not Awe them by Truth? Is it not just that those should eternally perish, that will entertain such desperate thoughts of God, and then by such wicked imaginations, encourage