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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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This Christ requireth of every true Christian: for, saith he,1 speaking to his Disciples, What do ye more than others? As if he had said, you who will approve your selves to be sincere Christians, and the true Disciples of Jesus Christ, must be of a more holy, and heavenly frame, of an higher strain than the rest of men:2 you must be singular, and shine as lights in the midst of a sinful, and crooked generation, by living exemplary, and convincing lives; that it may be said of you,3 what God said of Job, There was none like him in all the earth, as for wealth, so for piety, he being by many degrees the highest for grace in his age.
This Christ requireth of every true Christian: for, saith he,1 speaking to his Disciples, What do ye more than others? As if he had said, you who will approve your selves to be sincere Christians, and the true Disciples of Jesus Christ, must be of a more holy, and heavenly frame, of an higher strain than the rest of men:2 you must be singular, and shine as lights in the midst of a sinfull, and crooked generation, by living exemplary, and convincing lives; that it may be said of you,3 what God said of Iob, There was none like him in all the earth, as for wealth, so for piety, he being by many degrees the highest for grace in his age.
- 1Mat. 5.47.
- 2Phil. 2.15.
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