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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. All the death and calamity ⟨p. 163⟩which you see in the world, comes from the anger of this merciful God: why then may not future misery come from it?
3. God knoweth his own mercy better then you do; and he hath told you how far it shall extend.
4. He is infinitely merciful; but it is to the Heirs of mercy: Not to the final Rejecters of his mercy.
4. He is infinitly merciful; but it is to the Heirs of mercy: Not to the final Rejecters of his mercy.
5. Hath not God been merciful to thee, in bearing with thee so long, and offering thee Grace in the blood of Christ, till thou didst wilfully reject it? Thou wilt confess to thy everlasting woe that •od was merciful; Had he not been so merciful, thou wouldst not have been so miserable for rejecting it.