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A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures
A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by E.H. for Nathanael Ranew, 1693
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As for the Sermons, they will speak for themselves unto any indifferent and judicious Reader, the Subject-Matters of ehem being very useful unto all that shall peruse them; and more especially in in some Cases;1 Ex. gr. When Men are eager and inordinate in their pursuits after this World, as if their Happiness were wrapped up in it; what can be more seasonably pressed upon them, to take ⟨image 5⟩off the edge of their Desires after them, than to present to their most serious thoughts the Consideration of their own Mortality?
As for the Sermons, they will speak for themselves unto any indifferent and judicious Reader, the Subject-Matters of ehem being very useful unto all that shall peruse them; and more especially in in some Cases;1 Ex. gr. When Men are eager and inordinate in their pursuits after this World, as if their Happiness were wrapt up in it; what can be more seasonably press'd upon them, to take ⟨image 5⟩off the edge of their Desires after them, than to present to their most serious thoughts the Consideration of their own Mortality?
- 1See the Sermons on Heb. 9.27.
1And when among Professors of Religion, multitudes perish by adventuring upon those Sins which the World account small and little; what can be more effectual to deter Sinners in their way to Hell and Destruction, than to offer unto their Consciences the Consideration of the infinite Evil and Danger there is in Sin.