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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. 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?
4. You saw Toads and Serpents which had never sinned: And you would rather live in any tolerable suffering, then to be a Toad. And is it not Reason, that it should go worse with contemptuous sinners, then with those creatures that never sinned?
5. Could you expect that those should come to heaven, that would not believe there was such a state, but refused it, and preferred the world before it? And to be out of heaven is to be out of all Happiness? and he that is so out of all happiness, and knows that he lost it by his own folly, must needs Torment himself with such Considerations, were there no other Torments. And as man is capable of greater felicity than brutes, so must he needs be capable of more misery.