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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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Q. If you ask how they shall be summoned?
A. By a shout from Heaven, and the sound of a Trumpet, which shall alarm this sleeping earth, and at which Hell shall shake, all graves shall open, and yield up their prisoners, which they have fast kept in the chains of death, from all ages since the beginning of the World.1 Yea the Sea shall give up her dead which are in it.
A dreadful summons it will be unto all the wicked and ungodly, whom this sudden noise will no less astonish, than confound. We read, that when the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai, for the delivery of the Law,1 with the sound of a Trumpet; the people of Israel quaked and trembled. Oh then how will the wicked and ungodly quake and tremble when the Lord Christ shall descend from Heaven with the sound of a Trumpet to punish the transgressors of that Law?
A dreadfull summons it will be unto all the wicked and ungodly, whom this sudden noise will no less astonish, than confound. We read, that when the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai, for the delivery of the Law,1 with the sound of a Trumpet; the people of Israel quaked and trembled. Oh then how will the wicked and ungodly quake and tremble when the Lord Christ shall descend from Heaven with the sound of a Trumpet to punish the transgressours of that Law?