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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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2. So much as is of Necessity to salvation, is as plain as you could desire. Yet if you be Judged by these, you will be condemned: For you did not obey that which was most plain. What darkness is in such words as these, Except ye Repent, ye shall All perish, Luk. 13.3, 5. Love not the world, nor the things in the world: if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 1 John ⟨p. 124⟩2.15. He that will come after me, let h•m deny himself, &c. Matth. 16.24.
3. If there had been nothing that seemed difficult to you, would you not have despised its simplicity, and have thought your selves wise enough at the first Reading and needed no more?
The fourteenth Excuse. There were so many seeming Contradictions in the Scripture, and so many strange improbable things, that I could not believe it.