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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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The fortieth Excuse. I lived in poverty and misery on earth, and therefore I hope I have had my suffering here, and shall not suffer in this world, and another too.
The fourtieth Excuse. I lived in poverty and misery on earth, and therefore I hope I have had my suffering here, and shall not suffer in this world, and another too.
Answ. 1. By that Rule all poor men, and murderers, and thieves that are tormented and hanged, should be saved. But as Godliness hath the promise of this life and that to come, so Impenitency and Wickedness hath the Threatening ⟨p. 168⟩of this life, and that to come.
Answ. 1. By that Rule all poor men, and murderers, and thieves that are tormented and hanged, should be saved. But as Godlyness hath the promise of this life and that to come, so Impenitency and Wickedness hath the Threatning ⟨p. 168⟩of this life, and that to come.
2. The Devils and the damned have suffered much more than you already: and yet they are never the nearer a deliverance. When thou hast, suffered ten thousand years, thy pain will be never the nearer an end. How then can a little misery on earth prevent it? Alas poor soul, these are but the foretasts and beginnings of thy sorrow. Nothing but pardon through the blood of Christ could have prevented thy Condemnation, and that thou rejectedst by Infidelity and Impenitency: His sufferings would have saved thee, if thou hadst not Refused him: But all thine own sufferings will yield thee no Relief.