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Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 "Yield your…
Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 "Yield your selves to God" / by J.H. ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
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.
2. 'Tis that therefore the refusal whereof none of you would avow. Who among us can have the confidence to stand forth and say, I will be none of the Lords? Would any man be content to go with this writ upon his Forehead from day to day? And doth not that signify such a refusal to be a shameful thing? That must needs be an ill temper of Mind which one would be ashamed any one should know.
2. 'Tis that therefore the refusal whereof none of you would avow. Who among us can have the confidence to stand forth and say, I will be none of the Lords? Would any man be content to go with this writ upon his Forehead from day to day? And doth not that signifie such a refusal to be a shameful thing? That must needs be an ill temper of Mind which one would be asham'd any one should know.
3. And 'tis a mean thing to dissemble, to be willing to be thought, and counted what we are not, or to do what in truth we do not.
4. And considering what inspection we are under, 'tis a vain thing. For do we not know that eyes which are as a flame of fire, behold us, and pierce into our very Souls? Do we not know all things in us are naked and manifest to him with whom we have to do? 1And that he discerns it, if there be any heart ⟨p. 60⟩among us that is not sincere in this thing?