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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 8
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.
Answ. There is a five fold Evidence among men▪ 1. When the fact is notorious. 2. The knowledge of an unsuspected Competent ⟨p. 42⟩Judge. 3. The parties Confession. 4. Witness. 5. Instruments and visible effects of the action. All these Evidences will be at hand, and any one of them sufficient for the conviction of the guilty person at that day.
Answ. There is a five fold Evidence among men▪ 1. When the fact is notorious. 2. The knowledge of an unsuspected Competent ⟨p. 42⟩Iudge. 3. The parties Confession. 4. Witness. 5. Instruments and visible effects of the action. All these Evidences will be at hand, and any one of them sufficient for the conviction of the guilty person at that day.
1. As the sins of all men; so the Impenitency and Rebellion of the wicked was notorious, or at least will be then. For though some play the hypocrites and hide the matter from the world and themselves, yet God shall open their hearts and former lives to themselves, and to the view of all the world. He shall set their sins in order before them so, that it shall be utterly in vain to deny or excuse them▪ If any men will then think to make their cause as good to God as they can now do to us, that are not able to see their hearts▪ they will be foully mistaken. Now they can say they have ⟨p. 34⟩as good hearts as the best: then God will bring them out in the light; and show them to themselves and all the world, whether they were good or bad. Now they will face us down that they do truly Repent, and they obey God as well as they can, but God that knoweth the Deceivers, will then undeceive them. We cannot now make men acquainted with their own unsanctified hearts, nor convince them that have not true Faith, Repentance or Obedience; but God will convince them of it; They can find shifts and false answers to put off a Minister with; but God will not so be shifted off. Let us preach as plainly to them as we can and do all that ever we are able to acquaint them with the impenitency and unholiness of their own heart, and the necessity of a new heart and life, yet we cannot do