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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.
5. He hath seen Christ Crucified, and mourned over him. This is the glass that doth most clearly show the ugliness of sin: And here he hath learned to abhor himself.
5. He hath seen Christ Crucified, and mourned over him. This is the glass that doth most clearly shew the ugliness of sin: And here he hath learned to abhor himself.
6. He hath foreseen by Faith the End of sin, and the doleful recompense of the ungodly: His faith beholdeth the misery of damned souls, and the Glory which sinners cast away. He heareth them before-hand repenting and lamenting, and crying out of their former folly, and wishing in vain that all this were to do again, and that they might once more be tried with another life, and resolving then how holily, how self-denyingly they would live! He knows if sin had had its way, he had been plunged into this hellish misery himself, and therefore he must needs loath himself for his iniquities.
6. He hath foreseen by Faith the End of sin, and the doleful recompence of the ungodly: His faith beholdeth the misery of damned souls, and the Glory which sinners cast away. He heareth them before-hand repenting and lamenting, and crying out of their former folly, and wishing in vain that all this were to do again, and that they might once more be tryed with another life, and resolving then how holily, how self-denyingly they would live! He knows if sin had had its way, he had been plunged into this hellish misery himself, and therefore he must needs loath himself for his iniquities.
7. Moreover the true Convert hath had the liveliest taste of mercy; of the blood of Christ; of the offers and Covenant of grace; of reprieving mercy; of pardoning mercy; of healing and preserving mercy; and of the unspeakable mercy contained in the promise of everlasting life: And to find that he hath sinned against all this mercy, doth constrain him to abhor himself.