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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
GOD Acknowledged: OR THE The TRUE INTEREST of the NATION, and all t… › Exhortation.
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1. Join Confession of Sins with your Supplications: O find out, every one of you, the Plague of his own heart, and lie low at the Foot of God; confess your own Sins, and the Sins of the Nation, and the Sins of God's People, thus you have heard Daniel 1did: Brethren, to Confession of Sin, add also deep Humiliation, this must be joined with our Prayers and Confessions; nay, and Reformation of Life also, every one must turn from his evil way. See 2 Chron. 7. 14. If my People that are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their Evil Ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their Sins, and will be all their Land: If we regard Iniquity in our hearts, God will not hear our Prayers: 'Tis true, a National Humiliation and Reformation, may prevent National Judgments, as in the case of Nineveh: O that we could see but such an Humiliation (as was among them) among us in England, for the Sins of this Nation are grievous in the Sight of God, being attended with such Lamentable Aggravations, we are a People of exceeding great Mercies; but O! the Wickedness of these Days: God is therefore angry with us; the Inhabitants of England may see their Sins in their Punishment: Doth not God touch us in our Trade and Coin? Is it not, because those two things have been, as it were, the Idols of England, or of Multitudes among us? Sirs, Let us look higher than to secondary Causes of these present distresses that are upon us; and acknowledge God to be just in permitting these Evils to come upon the Land: If ⟨p. 37⟩we cannot find out the Cause of our Distempers, how shall we find out a Cure?
1. Joyn Confession of Sins with your Supplications: O find out, every one of you, the Plague of his own heart, and lie low at the Foot of God; confess your own Sins, and the Sins of the Nation, and the Sins of God's People, thus you have heard Daniel 1did: Brethren, to Confession of Sin, add also deep Humiliation, this must be joyned with our Prayers and Confessions; nay, and Reformation of Life also, every one must turn from his evil way. See