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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.
Sermon 4: The Nature, Danger, Aggravations, and Cure of Presumptuous Sinning, &c. ON
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.
The Nature, Danger, Aggravations, and Cure of Presumptuous Sinning, &c. ON
PSAL. XIX. v. 13. Keep back thy Servant also from Presumptuous Sins; let them not have dominion over me.
Having in my former Subject treated of Abstinence from those Things that have in them the Appearance of Evil, I shall now from the Words read to you, speak something also of those things that are apparently evil; that, as you have already in part seen what Christian Prudence and Circumspection is required that your Conversations be not offensive; so here you may also see what Fervency of ⟨p. 152⟩Prayer, what Measure of Grace is requisite that they be not grossly wicked.
HAving in my former Subject treated of Abstinence from those Things that have in them the Appearance of Evil, I shall now from the Words read to you, speak something also of those things that are apparently evil; that, as you have already in part seen what Christian Prudence and Circumspection is required that your Conversations be not offensive; so here you may also see what Fervency of ⟨p. 152⟩Prayer, what Measure of Grace is requisite that they be not grosly wicked.