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A word to sinners, and a word to saints The former tending to the…
A word to sinners, and a word to saints The former tending to the awakening the consciences of secure sinners, unto a lively sense and apprehension of the dreadful condition they are in, so long as they live in their natural and unregenerate estate. The latter tending to the directing and persuading of the godly and regenerate unto several singular duties. As also a word to householders stirring them up to the good old way of serving God in and with their families, from Joshua's resolution, Josh. 24. 15. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Set forth especially for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of St. Sepulchres Parish, London by Tho. Gouge, late pastor thereof.A word to sinners, and a word to saints The former tending to the awakening the consciences of secure sinners, unto a lively sense and apprehension of the dreadfull condition they are in, so long as they live in their natural and unregenerate estate. The latter tending to the directing and perswading of the godly and regenerate unto several singular duties. As also a word to housholders stirring them up to the good old way of serving God in and with their families, from Joshuah's resolution, Josh. 24. 15. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Set forth especially for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of St. Sepulchres Parish, London by Tho. Gouge, late pastor thereof.
London: printed for George Sawbridge, 1668
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CHAP. VIII. Showeth the miserable and dreadful condition of the Unregenerate at their death.
CHAP. VIII. Sheweth the miserable and dreadfull condition of the Vnregenerate at their death.
IF the life of an unregenerate man be so miserable, as hath been showed. How doleful think you, will be his death? surely his misery then will be much increased, ⟨p. 40⟩As will appear from the consideration of these particulars.
IF the life of an unregenerate man be so miserable, as hath been shewed. How dolefull think you, will be his death? surely his misery then will be much increased, ⟨p. 40⟩As will appear from the consideration of these particulars.
I. When death shall appear unto thee, and tell thee, it hath a message from the Lord, who hath sent an habeas corpus for thy body: Then comes in Conscience, if a little awakened, with her books of accounts, her black and bitter roll, and shows thee thy old reckonings and arrears, setting before thee the follies of thy youth, the sins of thy riper years, and the iniquities of thy whole life.