A34165:39
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
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3. The third thing I would have you consider, that whosoever goeth out of Gods way to avoid danger, shall certainly meet with greater danger. Balaam went out of Gods way, Numb. 22.22. and God sent an Angel with a drawn sword, and he riding upon an Ass, verse 26. the Angel stood in a narrow place, where was no way to go from the right hand or from the left: if his Ass had not fallen under him, he had been run through by the sword of the Angel. Jonah, for fear of the King of Nineveh, went out of Gods way, but he met with a mighty tempest, he met with a Whale. What do you do when you commit sin? you make way to be cast into the eternal prison of Hell; you destroy your precious souls, to save your perishing bodies.
3. The third thing I would have you consider, that whosoever goeth out of Gods way to avoid danger, shall certainly meet with greater danger. Balaam went out of Gods way, Numb. 22.22. and God sent an Angel with a drawn sword, and he riding upon an Asse, verse 26. the Angel stood in a narrow place, where was no way to go from the right hand or from the left: if his Asse had not fallen under him, he had been run thorow by the sword of the Angel. Jonah, for fear of the King of Nineveh, went out of Gods way, but he met with a mighty tempest, he met with a Whale. What do you do when you commit sin? you make way to be cast into the eternal prison of Hell; you destroy your precious souls, to save your perishing bodies.
Use 2. If sin be the father and mother of all perplexity and distresses, then I beseech you, let us above all things in the world abhor sin: all the curses of the Bible are all due only to a sinner; and all the curses not named in the Bible: for that is observable, Deut. 28.36. every plague that is not written in the Book shall light upon him: there are strange punishments to the workers of iniquity,