A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

Some would seem so modest, as in the midst of their profane Oaths, and Violations of the Sacred Name of God, to beg his Pardon, and say, God forgive them. But so ludicrously, as he whom Cato animadverts upon, For begging Pardon that he wrote in Greek, which he was unacquainted with; saying, He had rather ask Pardon, than be Innocent;¹ for what should induce him to do so unnecessary a thing, for which Pardon should be necessary? ⟨p. 206⟩Th•se Men think Pardons very cheap things! But will God be mocked? Or doth he not observe? 'Tis the prevailing Atheistical Spirit we are to dread, as that which may provoke Jealousy, and to make himself known by the Judgments he shall execute.

Some would seem so modest, as in the midst of their profane Oaths, and Violations of the Sacred Name of God, to beg his Pardon, and say, God forgive them. But so ludicrously, as he whom Cato animadverts upon, For begging Pardon that he wrote in Greek, which he was unacquainted with; saying, He had rather ask Pardon, than be Innocent;¹ for what should induce him to do so unnecessary a thing, for which Pardon should be necessary? ⟨p. 206⟩Th•se Men think Pardons very cheap things! But will God be mocked? Or doth he not observe? 'Tis the prevailing Atheistical Spirit we are to dread, as that which may provoke Jealousie, and to make himself known by the Judgments he shall execute.

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There is great reason to hope, God will not finally abandon England. But is there not equal reason to fear, that before the Day of Mercy come, there may be a nearer Day of Wrath, coming? A Day that shall burn as an Oven, and make the Hemisphere about us, a fiery Vault! In our Recovery from a lapsed State, which the Religion profest among us, aims at; There are two things to be effected. The restoring Reason to its Empire over the sensitive Nature,