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God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God…
God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God opened in a sermon preached December the 11th, 1695 : being the day appointed by the king for public prayer and humiliation / by Benjamin Keach.God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God opened in a sermon preached December the 11th, 1695 : being the day appointed by the king for publick prayer and humiliation / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for William Marshal, 1696
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.
We can never be in so high a state, never arrive to such a degree of Wisdom, or have Riches in so great abundance; but we have need to acknowledge God, and depend upon him; no Man living, but stands in need of God's help.
And there is no Man so low, so poor, so destitute, but God can raise him, help him, and relieve him: Man's Being, and well Being, is only from God.
7. God is to be acknowledged in Truth and Uprightness of1 Heart; if we fail here, all our Humiliations will be in vain; Hypocritical Fasts are abominable to God; Is it because we have Sinned, and God thereby hath been dishonoured? or, Is it not rather for Corn, Wine, and Oil, that we cry to God this day? Is it not for a deliverance from our Miseries, rather than from our Iniquities? When you fasted and mourned, &c. did you (saith the Lord) fast unto me? Zech. 7. 5. Let all Men see to this, for if we are not sincere, God looks upon our Prayers with disdain: They have not cried to me with their Heart, when they howled on their Beds, they assemble themselves for Corn and Wine, and they rebel against me, Hos. 7. 14.
7. God is to be acknowledg'd in Truth and Uprightness of1 Heart; if we fail here, all our Humiliations will be in vain; Hypocritical Fasts are abominable to God; Is it because we have Sinned, and God thereby hath been dishonoured? or, Is it not rather for Corn, Wine, and Oyl, that we cry to God this day? Is it not for a deliverance from our Miseries, rather than from our Iniquities? When you fasted and mourned, &c. did you (saith the Lord) fast unto me?