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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. Terror and woe to them that cast off all fear of God, and acknowledge him not, or do it not in truth and sincerity. Thou 1casteth off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Some men look upon it vain and uproficable to pray to God, or to acknowledge him; What profit is it that we have kept his Ordinances, and have 2walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts? But what will these men do in the day of Wrath? Judgments shall bow them and break them, if Mercies will not melt them.
1. Terror and wo to them that cast off all fear of God, and acknowledge him not, or do it not in truth and sincerity. Thou 1casteth off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Some men look upon it vain and uproficable to pray to God, or to acknowledge him; What profit is it that we have kept his Ordinances, and have 2walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts? But what will these men do in the day of Wrath? Judgments shall bow them and break them, if Mercies will not melt them.
2. Those that refuse to acknowledge God, or who follow not his Direction, and walk not in his Ways, nor hearken not to his Voice, nor wait for his Counsel, he will in Wrath and Judgment leave, and give them up to their own hearts lusts, and to walk in their own counsel, as he did Israel of old; My people would not bearken to my voice, and Israel would have none of me; so I gave them up to their own hearts lusts, and they walked in their own counsel. God may justly withdraw all his directing influences from such, and blind their Eyes, who, through Pride, think they have Wisdom enough to manage their own Affairs, and direct their own Paths. God's counsel is to men, to forsake their sinful ways, to embrace his Son, or believe in Christ, and trust in him alone, and rest on his word, and cry to him in their trouble; but when they refuse to do this, he oftentimes utterly leaves them, and then they fall, and bring ruin on