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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. And those things which you called improbable in the word, were the wonders of God, of purpose to confirm it. If it had not been confirmed by wonders, you would have thought it unproved: and yet now it is so confirmed, you will not believe the Doctrine, because the witness seems incredible. And that is, because they are matters above the power of man: As if they were therefore above the power of God! You shall at last have your eyes so far opened, as to see those seeming contradictions reconciled, and the certainty of those things which you accounted Improbable: that you may be forced to confess the ⟨p. 126⟩folly of your Arrogancy and Unbelief: and then God will Judge you in Righteousness, who presumed unrighteously to judge him and his word.
The fifteenth Excuse. It seemed so unlikely a thing to me, that the merciful God should damn most of the World to everlasting fire, that I could not believe it.
The fifteenth Excuse. It seemed so unlikely a thing to me, that the merciful God should damn most of tht World to everlasting fire, that I could not believe it.
Answ. 1. And did it not seem as unlikely to you, that his word should be false?