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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 tenth Excuse. I had ungodly persons to my Parents, or Masters, or Landlord, or Governors, who threatened to undo me, if I had addicted my self to so strict a life, and if I would not believe and do as they did.
The tenth Excuse. I had ungodly persons to my Parents, or Masters, or Landlord, or Governors, who threatned to undo me, if I had addicted my self to so strict a life, and if I would not believe and do as they did.
Answ. What if they threatened you with present Death? Did not God also threaten you with everlasting Death, if you were ⟨p. 116⟩not ruled by him? And whose threatening should you have chiefly feared? Is man more dreadful than God? Is death more terrible then Hell? Did not Christ bid you▪ Fear not them that can kill the body, and after that can do no more; but fear him that is able to destroy both body and soul in hell fire; yea I say unto you, fear him. Mat. 10.28. Luke 12.4, 5. and Isa. 51.7. Fear ye not the Reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings: For the moth shall eat them up like a Garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my Righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from Generation to Generation. Seeing therefore you have chosen rather to suffer from God for ever for your sin, then to suffer small matters for well-doing for a moment, you must even bear your own choice. Christ told you before hand, that ⟨p. 117⟩if you could not forsake all the world and your own lives for him, you could not be his Disciples, Matth. 10.37, 38, 39