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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
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From Weakness to Wilfulness; from Ignorance to Presumption, is its ordinary course and progress. The Cloud that Elijah's Man saw, was at first no bigger than a hand's breadth, and it threatened no such thing as a general Tempest; but yet at last it overspread the face of the whole Heavens: Why, so truly a Sin that at first ariseth in the Soul, but as a small Mist, and is scarce discernible; yet ⟨p. 153⟩if it be not scattered by the breath of Prayer, it will at length overspread the whole Life, and become most tempestuous and raging; and therefore David, as one experienced in the deceitfulness of Sin, doth thus digest and methodize his Prayer; First, against secret and lesser Sins; and then against the more gross and notorious; as knowing the one proceeds and issues from the other: Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults; and this will be a most effectual means to preserve and keep thy Servant from Presumptuous Sins: and this Observation may be gathered from the connection of the two Requests: But I shall not insist on that.
From Weakness to Wilfulness; from Ignorance to Presumption, is its ordinary course and progress. The Cloud that Elijah's Man saw, was at first no bigger than a hand's breadth, and it threatned no such thing as a general Tempest; but yet at last it overspread the face of the whole Heavens: Why, so truly a Sin that at first ariseth in the Soul, but as a small Mist, and is scarce discernable; yet ⟨p. 153⟩if it be not scattered by the breath of Prayer, it will at length overspread the whole Life, and become most tempestuous and raging; and therefore David, as one experienced in the deceitfulness of Sin, doth thus digest and methodize his Prayer; First, against secret and lesser Sins; and then against the more gross and notorious; as knowing the one proceeds and issues from the other: Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults; and this will be a most effectual means to preserve and keep thy Servant from Presumptuous Sins: and this Observation may be gathered from the connexion of the two Requests: But I shall not insist on that.