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A sermon preached on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John…A sermon preach'd on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John…
A sermon preached on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John Howe ... ; to which is prefixed Dr. Bates's congratulatory speech to the King, Novemb. 22, 1697, in the name of the dissenting ministers in and about London.A sermon preach'd on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John Howe ... ; to which is prefixed Dr. Bates's congratulatory speech to the King, Novemb. 22, 1697, in the name of the dissenting ministers in and about London.
London: printed by S. Bridge for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
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.
SPIRITUAL Good, that of the Mind and Spirit, and which makes that better, especially that which accompanies Salvation, Heb. 6. 9. That runs into Eternity, and goes with us into the other World, is of the former Sort.
SPIRITVAL Good, that of the Mind and Spirit, and which makes that better, especially that which accompanies Salvation, Heb. 6. 9. That runs into Eternity, and goes with us into the other World, is of the former Sort.
EXTERNAL Good, is but Res Media, capable of being to us, sometimes Good, and sometimes Evil, as the Case may alter. Blessings of this kind may become Curses. Mal. 2. 2. I will Curse your Blessings—yea I have cursed them already—. A Mans Table may become his Snare, and that which was for his welfare a Trap, Psalm 69. 22.
MERELY External Blessings, are Curses, when they become the fuel of Lusts, when they animate Men unto Contests against Heaven, rebellions against the Divine Government; when, like Jesurun, Men wax Fat by them, and Kick against Heaven, Deut, 32. This we are always liable to, till Spiritual Blessings, intermingle with our other Blessings. And nothing should more convince the World, that the kindest and most benign Part of the Divine Government lies in immediate Influences on the Minds of Men, and that consequently their own Felicity depends thereon. Let all things that can be imagined, concur in the kind of External Good; and they can never make him an Happy Man, that has an ill Mind: He will always be his own Hell, and carry that about with him wheresoever he goes; He will be a constant Spring and Fountain of Misery to Himself; Misery, and he cannot be separated from one another. There is no Peace to the Wicked, saith my GOD; but he will be always a troubled Sea, whose Waters cast forth Mire and Dirt,