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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.
For the opening of which, observe these things following.
1. It is not all kind of [Remembering] that will prove you penitent. The impenitent Remember their sin that they may commit it: They Remember it with love, desire and delight: The Heart of the worldling goeth after his aery or earthen idol: The heart of the Ambitious feedeth on his vain-glory, and the peoples breath: And the filthy Fornicator is delighted in the thoughts of the object and exercise of his lust. But it is a Remembering, 1o From a deep conviction of the evil and odiousness of sin; 2o And with abhorrence and self-loathing; 3o That leadeth to a resolved and vigilant forsaking, that is the proof of true Repentance, and the prognostic of a peoples restoration.
1. It is not all kind of [Remembring] that will prove you penitent. The impenitent Remember their sin that they may commit it: They Remember it with love, desire and delight: The Heart of the worldling goeth after his aery or earthen idol: The heart of the Ambitious feedeth on his vain-glory, and the peoples breath: And the filthy Fornicator is delighted in the thoughts of the object and exercise of his lust. But it is a Remembring, 1o From a deep conviction of the evil and odiousness of sin; 2o And with abhorrence and self-loathing; 3o That leadeth to a resolved and vigilant forsaking, that is the proof of true Repentance, and the prognostick of a peoples restoration.
2. And it is not all self-loathing that will signify true Repentance. For there is a self-loathing of the Desperate and the damned soul, that abhorreth it self, and teareth and tormenteth it self, and cannot be restrained from self-revenge, when it finds that it hath wilfully, foolishly and obstinately been its own destroyer: ⟨p. 4⟩