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A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
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.
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, ⟨p. 207⟩that it may govern that; and the restoring Religion, and Love to God, to its Place and Power, that he may govern us. While the former is not done, we remain sunk into the low Level, with the Inferior Creatures; and till the latter be effected, we are ranked with the Apostate Creatures, that first fell from God. The Sensuality of Brutes, and the Enmity of Devils, rising, and springing up observably among us, import the directest Hostility, against the Redeemer's Design. And them that bid this open Defiance to Him, he hath every Moment at his Mercy!
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, ⟨p. 207⟩that it may govern that; and the restoring Religion, and Love to God, to its Place and Power, that he may govern us. While the former is not done, we remain sunk into the low Level, with the Inferior Creatures; and till the latter be effected, we are ranked with the Apostate Creatures, that first fell from God. The Sensualty of Brutes, and the Enmity of Devils, rising, and springing up observably among us, import the directest Hostility, against the Redeemer's Design. And them that bid this open Defiance to Him, he hath every Moment at his Mercy!