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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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?
2. Should it not have seemed as unlikely that the Governor of the world should be unjust, and suffer his Laws to be unexecuted, and the worst to speed as well as the best! and to suffer vile sinful dust to despise his mercy, and abuse his patience, and turn all his Creatures against him, without due punishment?
3. Did you not feel pain and misery begin in this life?