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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
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Sermon 4: The Nature, Danger, Aggravations, and Cure of Presumptuous Sinning, &c. ON
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it may be God hath begun to deal thus already with some of you, in the very midst of your sins, hath not the hand writing of some remarkable judgment appeared against you; hath not God smitten some of you in your Persons, in your Estates, or in your Relations; well take Christ's counsel, sin no more least a worst thing befall ⟨p. 205⟩•ou, least the next provocation he strike you through and sink you to Hell? Oh consider what a fearful thing it is, while your Souls are all on flame in the commission of sin, then for God to hurl them down into everlasting and unquenchable fire, as he may take just occasion and advantage to do for the glorifying of his Justice.
it may be God hath begun to deal thus already with some of you, in the very midst of your sins, hath not the hand writing of some remarkable judgment appeared against you; hath not God smitten some of you in your Persons, in your Estates, or in your Relations; well take Christ's counsel, sin no more least a worst thing befal ⟨p. 205⟩•ou, least the next provocation he strike you through and sink you to Hell? Oh consider what a fearful thing it is, while your Souls are all on flame in the commission of sin, then for God to hurl them down into everlasting and un•uenchable fire, as he may take just occasion and advantage to do for the glorifying of his Justice.
Fourthly, Consider this, 1It is very hard to bring presumptuous Sinners to reformation and repentance; the first step to evangelical sorrow is legal terror, which the Spirit of God works by convincing the Sinner of judgment and wrath to come, but now tell a presumptuous Sinner what judgment and wrath •s due to him, that it is impossible for him to escape the vengeance of God, that justice will over-take him, read to him all the curses contained in the Book of God, and tell him that they are all entailed upon his sin; this moves him not; he knew and considered all this before; a presumptuous Sinner must be a knowing Sinner; he knows what Hell is as well as ever any Man did that hath not felt it; he knows what a precious