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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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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.
Now the Righteous at this twelfth Verse, (For I shall not enlarge further upon the state of the wicked; but only to set off the state of the Righteous.) The Righteous shall flourish too. But how? Not like the Grass, but like the Palm-tree. And indeed, they shall abide for ever: whereas the wicked, they shall be destroyed for ever.
Who the Righteous are, I shall not stay to speak of at large.
They are such as are righteous in their state, being in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.