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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.
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.
What can we look for whilst things are thus, but some fearful calamity and dissolution.
But to proceed to a Use of Comfort and Consolation, to such who do in uprightness acknowledge God.
Observe the Motive, or Encouragement, that is laid down in the later part of my Text, and he shall direct thy Paths.
I cannot now speak to this part of the words, as I might, for want of time; but certainly here is great ground of Comfort to all godly Christians, yea to all that rightly acknowledge God. For,
1. He will show us the right way, that we might, saith Ezra, seek a right way; none but God can lead us into a right way; every mans way may seem right in his own Eyes; but no mans way is right, but such as God teaches and directs.