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Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the…
Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the late reverend Mr. Joseph Caryl.
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior, 1675
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PSAL. 92. 12. The righteous shall flourish like the Palm-tree. He shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon.
WE see commonly that opposites, either persons or things, being laid together, illustrate and set off one another. (To touch at no other things in this Psalm) Here are two of the greatest opposites in this world laid together, and they do wonderfully illustrate each other.
VVE see commonly that opposites, either persons or things, being laid together, illustrate and set off one another. (To touch at no other things in this Psalm) Here are two of the greatest opposites in this world laid together, and they do wonderfully illustrate each other.
The opposites are, the Wicked and the Righteous. And indeed, those two divide the whole world.
The state of the wicked, is set down at the seventh Verse, They may spring as the Grass, they may flourish. But what's the issue of it? It is that they shall be destroyed for ever. They shall spring, but they shall spring but like Grass, which is Green for a while, and quickly withers.