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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.
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.
In the Verse immediately before the Text, the Psalmist prays that God would cleanse him from his secret Faults; that is, from Sins of Ignorance, whereof he knew himself to be guilty in the general, though in particular he knew not what they were; now in this Verse, he prays, that God would keep him from Sins of Presumption. The Connection of these two Requests is somewhat remarkable, and may afford us this pertinent and profitable Observation.
In the Verse immediately before the Text, the Psalmist prays that God would cleanse him from his secret Faults; that is, from Sins of Ignorance, whereof he knew himself to be guilty in the general, though in particular he knew not what they were; now in this Verse, he prays, that God would keep him from Sins of Presumption. The Connexion of these two Requests is somewhat remarkable, and may afford us this pertinent and profitable Observation.