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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.
Now to answer this question,1 you must know the general and comprehensive reason thereof is his own Sovereign unaccountable good will and pleasure, into which the reason of all things is ⟨p. 228⟩most rationally resolved; and therefore, that among all Mankind that lay all alike in the same mass of corruption, that some are sanctified, and some are not, that among them that are sanctified, some are sanctified in one degree, and some in another, and yet none so perfectly as to be freed from sin; the best of God's Saints may rest satisfied in this; it is God's good pleasure to give forth his Grace in such a measure, to some more, to some less, as shall only weaken not utterly destroy the corruptions of his People: Therefore the Apostle in Hebrews 9.10. speaking of Christ's coming to do the will of God, by which will, says he, we are sanctified: That we are sanctified when others are not, is from the will of God; that we are sanctified in such a measure, not more nor less, must be resolved into the sovereign and uncontrollable will of God, by which will we are sanctified; and yet there are also many wise ends and reasons of this will of God, why he should leave still such sinful Propensions and corrupt Inclinations, even in the best of his People.
Now to answer this question,1 you must know the general and comprehensive reason thereof is his own Soveraign unaccountable good will and pleasure, into which the reason of all things is ⟨p. 228⟩most rationally resolved; and therefore, that among all Mankind that lay all alike in the same mass of corruption, that some are sanctified, and some are not, that among them that are sanctified, some are sanctified in one degree, and some in another, and yet none so perfectly as to be freed from sin; the best of God's Saints may rest satisfied in this; it is God's good pleasure to give forth his Grace in such a measure, to some more, to some less, as shall only weaken not utterly destroy the corruptions of his People: Therefore the Apostle in