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An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.
London : s.n., 1662
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Certainly if the Jews were so severely punished for breaking the Sabbath, which was set apart in memory of the Creation; surely God will severely punish those that break the Sabbath set apart in memory of Christ's Resurrection. May be, some will say, I have committed many of these sins, but am not brought into any strait. Remember, it was nine months after David had numbered the people, before he was in this strait: but as sure as God is in heaven, sin will bring straits sooner or later; though a sinner live an hundred years, yet shall he be accursed: May be, thy prosperity makes way for thy damnation: and this is thy greatest distress, that thou goest on in sin and prosperest.
Certainly if the Jews were so severely punished for breaking the Sabbath, which was set apart in memory of the Creation; surely God will severely punish those that break the Sabbath set apart in memory of Christ's Resurrection. May be, some will say, I have committed many of these sins, but am not brought into any strait. Remember, it was nine months after David had n•mbred the people, before he was in this strait: but as sure as God is in heaven, sin will bring straits sooner or later; though a sinner live au hundred years, yet shall he be accursed: May be, thy prosperity makes way for thy damnation: and this is thy greatest distress, that thou goest on in sin and prosperest.
Use 3. If sin bringeth a Nation into marvellous labyrinths, learn what great cause we have to fear that God should bring this Nation into great distress, because of the great abominations are committed in the midst of it: Our King and Sovereign was in great straits in the days of his banishment, but God hath delivered him: God hath delivered this Nation out of great straits; but alas, we requite God evil for good, and instead of repenting of old sins, we commit new sins. I am told there are new oaths invented, oaths ⟨p. 13⟩not fit to be named in any place, much less here: Certainly the drunkenness and adultery, the oppression and injustice, the bribery and Sabbath-breaking, the vain and wicked swearing and for-swearing, this Nation is guilty of, must of necessity provoke God to say of us, as he did of them in Jeremiah 15. 29. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? God will not only punish us, but be avenged on us. There is no way to avoid a national desolation but by a national reformation.