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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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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.
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 bruits, so must he needs be capable of more misery.
The sixteenth Excuse. The things which God promised in heaven, ⟨p. 128⟩and threatened in Hell, were all out of my sight: and therefore I could not heartily believe them. Had I but once seen them, or spoke with one that had seen them, I should have been satisfied, and have contemned the things, of the world.
The sixteenth Excuse. The things which God promised in heaven, ⟨p. 128⟩and threatned in Hell, were all out of my sight: and therefore I could not heartily believe them. Had I but once seen them, or spoke with one that had seen them, I should have been sati•fied, and have contemned the things, of the world.