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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. They that say, sin is nothing, say Pain and Loss is nothing too. You shall therefore be paid with one nothing for another. Make light of your misery, and say, It is nothing, as you did of your sin.
3. Will you take this for a good Excuse from your children or servants, if they abuse you? Or from a Thief or Murderer? shall he escape by telling the Judge that his sin was Nothing? Or rather have death, which is nothing, as the just Reward of it?
The three and thirtieth Excuse. But sin is a Transient thing. At least it doth God no harm, and therefore why should he do us so much harm for it.
Answ. 1. It hurts not God, because he is above hurt: No thanks to you, if he be out of your ⟨p. 162⟩reach. 2. You may Wrong him, when you cannot Hurt him. And the wrong deserves as much as you can bear. If a Traitor endeavour the death of the Prince, in vain, his endeavour deserves death, though he never hurt him. You despise Gods Law and Authority; you cause the Blaspheming of his name,