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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.
though Preachers roar out whole Pulpits full of Hell and Damnation, and singe our Ears continually with Fire and Brimstone, making fearful clamours of Death, Hell, and Damnation, and everlasting Torments; yet all things are with us as they were: Is not the Sun's light as cheering, the Aires breath as refreshing, and the Earths Womb as fruitful as it was? their greatest sins have not disturbed the least Atom in the Creation, nor moved so much as a hair of their head; for all that sudden and unavoidable destruction that is denounced against them, they still flourish and prosper; and because God doth not as Man revenge in the first heat, they think all threatenings are made rather to affright than to do execution; and hence it is, that they embolden and harden themselves in sin, and take up ⟨p. 195⟩resolutions, that they will continue in them; and that is the first way how the commission of presumptuous Sins bring Men to resolutions of sinning, by making them regardless of Divine threatenings.
though Preachers roar out whole Pulpits full of Hell and Damnation, and singe our Ears continually with Fire and Brimstone, making fearful clamours of Death, Hell, and Damnation, and everlasting Torments; yet all things are with us as they were: Is not the Sun's light as chearing, the Aires breath as refreshing, and the Earths Womb as fruitful as it was? their greatest sins have not disturbed the least Atome in the Creation, nor moved so much as a hair of their head; for all that sudden and unavoidable destruction that is denounced against them, they still flourish and prosper; and because God doth not as Man revenge in the first heat, they think all threatnings are made rather to affright than to do execution; and hence it is, that they embolden and harden themselves in sin, and take up ⟨p. 195⟩resolutions, that they will continue in them; and that is the first way how the commission of presumptuous Sins bring Men to resolutions of sinning, by making them regardless of Divine threatnings.