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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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4. And for their diverse opinions, you should have taken counsel at Gods word, which was right: Did you first search the Scripture impartially, as willing to know the Truth, that you might obey it? and did you pray daily that God would lead you into the Truth? and did you obey as much as you knew? Did you join with the godly so far as they are all agreed? They are all agreed in the Fundamental ⟨p. 121⟩Articles of Christianity, and in all things absolutely necessary to a holy Life, and to salvation: that all known sin is to be forsaken, and all known duty to be done. Why did you not so far then agree with them? Alas, the imperfections of the godly, and the false Accusations of the malicious world, will prove but a poor cover for your wilful ungodliness, and Christ will convince you of the vanity of these Excuses.
4. And for their diverse opinions, you should have taken counsel at Gods word, which was right: Did you first search the Scripture impartially, as willing to know the Truth, that you might obey it? and did you pray daily that God would lead you into the Truth? and did you obey as much as you knew? Did you joyn with the godly so far as they are all agreed? They are all agreed in the Fundamental ⟨p. 121⟩Articles of Christianity, and in all things absolutely necessary to a holy Life, and to salvation: that all known sin is to be forsaken, and all known duty to be done. Why did you not so far then agree with them? Alas, the imperfections of the godly, and the false Accusations of the malicious world, will prove but a poor cover for your wilful ungodliness, and Christ will convince you of the vanity of these Excuses.
The thirteenth Excuse. The Scriptures were so dark, that I could not understand them. And I saw the wisest men differ so much in the exposition of them, that I thought it was in vain for me to trouble my self about them. If God would have had us live according to the Scriptures, he would sure have written them plainly, that men might understand them.