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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 1
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.
1. FOR the first, Judgement as taken largely, comprehendeth all the forementioned particulars; As taken more strictly for the Act of the Judge, it is the Trial of a Controverted case. In our case not these things following.
1. FOR the first, Judgement as taken largely, comprehendeth all the forementioned particulars; As taken more strictly for the Act of the Judge, it is the Tryal of a Controverted case. In our case not these things following.
1. Gods Judgement is not intended for any Discovery to himself of what he knows not already: he knoweth already what all men are; and what they have done; and what is their due. But it is to discover to others and to men themselves the ground of his sentence, that so his Judgement may attain its end; for the glorifying his grace on the Righteous, and for the convincing the wicked of their sin and desert, and to show to all the world the Righteousness of the Judge, and of his ⟨p. 12⟩Sentence and Execution, Rom. 3.4.26. and Rom. 2.2.
1. Gods Judgement is not intended for any Discovery to himself of what he knows not already: he knoweth already what all men are; and what they have done; and what is their due. But it is to discover to others and to men themselves the ground of his sentence, that so his Judgement may attain its end; for the glorifying his grace on the Righteous, and for the convincing the wicked of their sin and deert, and to shew to all the world the Righteousness of the Judge, and of his