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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 4
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IV. FOR the fourth particular; Who will be the Accuser?
IV. FOR the fourth particular; VVho will be the Accuser?
Answ. 1. Satan is called in Scripture the Accuser of the Brethren, Rev. 12.10. and we find in Job 1. and other places, that now he doth Practice it even before ⟨p. 25⟩God, and therefore we judge it probable that he will do so then. But we would determine of nothing that Scripture hath not clearly determined.
Answ. 1. Satan is called in Scripture the Accuser of the Brethren, Rev. 12.10. and we find in Iob 1. and other places, that now he doth Practice it even before ⟨p. 25⟩God, and therefore we judge it probable that he will do so then. But we would determine of nothing that Scripture hath not clearly determined.
2. Conscience will be an Accuser, though especially of the wicked, yet in some sense of the righteous: for it will tell the truth to all: and therefore so far as men are faulty, it will tell them of their faults. The wicked it will accuse of unpardoned sin, and of sin unrepented of; the godly only of sin repented of and pardoned. It will be a Glass wherein every man may see the face of his heart and former Life,