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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 2
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4. If God will be the Judge, then none can expect by any shifts or indirect means scape at that Day. For how should it be?
1. It is not possible that any should keep out of sight, or hide their sin and the evil of their actions, and so delude the Judge: God will not be mocked now, nor deceived then, Gal. 6.7. they grossly deceive themselves that imagine any such thing: God must be Omniscient and All-seeing, or he cannot be God. Should you hide your cause from men and from Devils, and be ignorant of it your selves, yet cannot you hide it from God. Never did ⟨p. 17⟩there a thought pass thy a heart, or a word pass thy mouth, which God was not acquainted with: and as he knows them, so he doth observe them. He is not as Imperfect man, taken up with other business, so that he cannot mind All. As easy is it with him to observe every Thought, or Word, or Action of thine, as if he had but that one in the world to observe: and as easy to observe each particular sinner, as if he had not another creature to look after in the world. He is a fool indeed that thinks now that God takes no notice of him, Ezek. 8.12. and 9.9. or, that thinketh then to escape in the crowd: He that found out one Guest that had not on a wedding Garment, Mat. 22.12. will then find out every unholy soul, and give him so sad a salvation as shall make him speechless, Job 11.11. For he ⟨p. 18⟩noweth vain man; he seeth wickedness also, and will he not consider it?