A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Name: A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures
Author: Ezekiel Hopkins

A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...

Ezekiel Hopkins 1634–1690London: printed by E.H. for Nathanael Ranew, 1693

[13], 314, [2], 82 p. · 77k words · Wing H2735 · ESTC R37910

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Sermon 4: The Nature, Danger, Aggravations, and Cure of Presumptuous Sinning, &c. ON

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:236p. 190

And thus I have in six Particulars showed you what it is that makes a Sin to be presumptuous; which is that which David in the Text prays to God to keep him from; and I doubt not but these Particulars have represented to you so much Guilt and Ugliness in presumptuous Sins, as that you also pray with him, Lord, keep us also from presumptuous Sins.

And thus I have in six Particulars shewed you what it is that makes a Sin to be presumptuous; which is that which David in the Text prays to God to keep him from; and I doubt not but these Particulars have represented to you so much Guilt and Ugliness in presumptuous Sins, as that you also pray with him, Lord, keep us also from presumptuous Sins.

:237p. 190

¹Now, though possibly it may seem altogether needless to die scarlet redder, yet that your Prayers against them may be more importunate, and your endeavours unwearied, I shall in the next place by some aggravating considerations ingrain these scarlet crimson sins, and strive to make them appear as they are in themselves out of measure sinful.

1Aggravations of presumptuous sinning.

:238p. 191–192

Consider therefore in the first place,¹ that the commission of presumptuous Sins doth exceedingly harden and steel the heart, with resolutions to persevere in them without repentance, and what can be more dreadful than this is; resolvedness to sin is a disposition likest to that of the Devil, and it is a punishment next to that of Hell; a Man that is confirmed in wickedness, is not many removes off from a Devil in his nature, and from a damned Person in his State; there is a fatal consequence betwixt Man's resolving to continue in sin to the end, and God's resolving to punish him with those torments that shall have no end. God hath two Seals, the one of the Spirit of Adoption, whereby he seals up Believers to the day of Redemption, and the other of Obduration, whereby he seals up the Impenitent to the Day of Destruction, he seals them up under sin, and sets them aside for Wrath; hence the Apostle in

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