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A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament…
A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament at Westminster, at their late solemn fast for the settling of these nations, April 30, 1660 / by Richard Baxter.A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament at Westminster, at their late solemn fast for the setling of these nations, April 30, 1660 / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. and A.M. for Francis Tyton and Jane Underhil, 1660
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.
A SERMON OF REPENTANCE.
EZEK. 36. 31. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loath your selves in your own sight, for your iniquities, and for your abominations.
EZEK. 36. 31. Then shall ye remember your own evil wayes, and your doings that were not good, and shall loath your selves in your own sight, for your iniquities, and for your abominations.
THE words are a part of Gods prognostics of the Jews restoration, whose dejection he had before described. Their disease begun within, and there God promiseth to work the cure. Their captivity was but the fruit of their voluntary captivity to sin; and their grief of heart, was but the fruit of their hardness of ⟨p. 2⟩heart; and their sharpest sufferings, of their foul pollutions; and therefore God promiseth a methodical cure; even to take away their old and stony heart, and cleanse them from their filthiness, and so to ease them by the removing of the cause. How far, and when this promise was to be made good to the Jews, as Nationally considered, is a matter that requires a longer disquisition then my limited hour will allow: and the decision of that case is needless, as to my present end and work. That this is part of the Gospel-Covenant, and applicable to us Believers now, the Holy-Ghost in the Epistle to the Hebrews hath assured us.
THE words are a part of Gods prognosticks of the Jews restoration, whose dejecton he had before described. Their disease begun within, and there God promiseth to work the cure. Their captivity was but the fruit of their voluntary captivity to sin; and their grief of heart, was but the fruit of their hardness of