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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and Aldermen of the City London, Dec. 17. 1654

A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City London, Dec. 17. 1654

2 Cor. 5.10, 11. For we must all Appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body; according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terrors of the Lord we persuade men.

2 Cor. 5.10, 11. For we must all Appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body; according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terrors of the Lord we perswade men.

IT is not unlikely, that some of those wits that are taken more with things New then with things Necessary, will marvel that ⟨p. 2⟩I choose so common a subject, and tell me that they all know this already▪ But I do it purposely upon these following Considerations. 1. Because I well know, that it is these common Truths that are the great and necessary things which mens everlasting happiness or misery doth most Depend upon. You may be ignorant of many Controversies and Inferior points, without the danger of your souls, but so you cannot of these Fundamentals. 2. Because its apparent by the lives of men, that few know these Common Truths savingly, that think they know them. 3. Because there are several degrees of knowing the same Truths, and the best are imperfect in degree. The principal growth in knowledge that we should look after, is not to know more matters then we kne before, but to know that better, and with a clearer light