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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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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.
Qu. 3.
MY next Question to you, is▪ How are you affected w•th the Consideration of this day? Barely to think of it will not serve: To think of such a day as this with a dull and senseless heart, is a sign of fearful stupidity. Did the knees of King Belshazzar knock together with trembling, when he saw the handwriting on the wall? Da•. 5.6. How then should thy heart be affected that seeth the hand-writing of God as a summons to his bar?
MY next Question to you, is▪ How are you affected w•th the Consideration of this day? Barely to think of it will not serve: To think of such a day as this with a dull and senseless heart, is a sign of fearful stupidity. Did the knees of King Belshazzar knock together with trembling, when he saw the handwriting on the wall? Da•. 5.6. How then should thy heart be affected that seeth the hand-writing of God as a summons to his barr?
When I began to preach of these things long ago, I confess the matters seemed to me so terrible, that I was afraid that people would have run out of their wits w•th fear; but a little experience