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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.
What monsters of Heresy, and Schism, of impiety, treason and rebellion, of perjury and perfidiousness, would too many make of the faults of others, while they extenuate their Own to almost nothing! It is a wonder to observe, how the case doth alter with the most, when that which was their adversaries case, becomes their own. The very prayers of the godly, and their care of their salvation, and their fear of sinning, doth seem their crime in the eyes of some that easily bear the guilt of swearing, drunkenness, sensuality, filthiness, and neglect of duty, in themselves, as a tolerable burden.
What monsters of Heresie, and Schism, of impiety, treason and rebellion, of perjury and perfidiousness, would too many make of the faults of others, while they extenuate their Own to almost nothing! It is a wonder to observe, how the case doth alter with the most, when that which was their adversaries case, becomes their own. The very prayers of the godly, and their care of their salvation, and their fear of sinning, doth seem their crime in the eyes of some that easily bear the guilt of swearing, drunkenness, sensuality, filthiness, and neglect of duty, in themselves, as a tolerable burden.
But if ever God indeed convert you, (though you will pity others, yet) he will teach you to begin at home, and take the beam out of your own eyes, and to cry out, [I am the miserable sinner.]
But if ever God indeed convert you, (though you will pitty others, yet) he will teach you to begin at home, and take the beam out of your own eyes, and to cry out, [I am the miserable sinner.]
And lest these generals seem insufficient for us to confess on such a day as this, and lest yet your memories should need more help, is it not my duty to mind you of some particulars? which yet I shall not do by way of accusation, but of enquiry: Far be it from me to judge so hardly of you, that when you come hither to lament your sins, you cannot with patience endure to be told of them.