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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. But what if the way to heaven had been harder then it was? was not heaven worth your labour? were you afraid of being a loser by it? Could not God requite your labour or sufferings? Doth any Repent when they come to Heaven▪ that it cost them so dear to come thither? And is not hell ⟨p. 132⟩worse then the hardest way to heaven? seeing you have chosen hell to save you a labour and suffering in this life, you must have your choice. And seeing you thought not everlasting life to be worth so much as God required, that is, the Accepting thankfully, and minding, and seeking, and preferring it before this life, you have none to blame for the loss of it but your selves.
2. But what if the way to heaven had been harder then it was? was not heaven worth your labor? were you afraid of being a loser by it? Could not God requite your labour or sufferings? Doth any Repent when they come to Heaven▪ that it cost them so dear to come thither? And is not hell ⟨p. 132⟩worse then the hardest way to heaven? seeing you have chosen hell to save you a labour and suffering in this life, you must have your choice. And seeing you thought not everlasting life to be worth so much as God required, that is, the Accepting thankfully, and minding, and seeking, and preferring it before this life, you have none to blame for the loss of it but your selves.
The eighteenth Excuse. It was God that made me of a sensual nature: he gave me an Appetite to Meat, and Drink, and Ease, and Lust; He gave me that flesh which ruled me: How then can he condemn me, for living according to the nature which he gave me?