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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 10
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To be cursed, is to be a People ⟨p. 190⟩destinated and adjudged to utter unhappiness; to all kind of misery without remedy.
2. Their Cursed condition is described in the next words, Depart from me into Everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels.
1. Depart! From whom? from the God that made them in his Image. From the Redeemer that bought them by the price of his blood, and offered to save them freely, for all their unworthiness, and many a time entreated them to Accept his offer that their souls might live. From the Holy Ghost the Sanctifier and Comforter of the faithful, who strove with their hearts, till they quenched and expelled him. O sad Departing! who would not then choose rather to Depart from all the friends he had in the world, and from any thing Imaginable; ⟨p. 191⟩from his life, from himself, if it were possible, then from Christ? Depart! from what? why, from the presence of the Judge; from all further Hopes of salvation for ever: from all possibility of ever being saved, and living in the joyful Inheritance of the Righteous. Depart! Not from Gods Essential presence, for that will be with them to their everlasting misery, but from the presence of his Grace, in that measure as they enjoyed it. Depart! Not from your fleshly pleasures, and honours, and profits of the world: These were all gone and past already: and there was no further need to bid them Depart from these: Houses and Lands were gone▪ Mirth and Recreations were gone. Their sweet morsels and cups were gone: All the Honour that men could give them was gone, before they were set at