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Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication…
Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication of the 14th chapter of the Prophet Hosea in seven sermons preached upon so many days of solemn humiliation / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Thomas Newcomb for Robert Bostock, 1649
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 1: The First SERMON UPON HOSEA, Chap. 14. Vers. 1, 2.
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.
Look downward, and behold a curse in the earth, Death ready to put a period to all the pleasures of sin, and like a trap-door to let down into Hell, where nothing of sin will remain, but the worm and the fire.
Looke downward, and behold a curse in the earth, Death ready to put a period to all the pleasures of sinne, and like a trap-doore to let downe into Hell, where nothing of sinne will remaine, but the worm and the fire.
Look into the Scripture, and see the curse there described: an everlasting banishment from the glory of Gods presence: an everlasting destruction by the glory of his power, 2 Thes. 1.9. The Lord showing the jealousy of his Justice, the unsearchableness of his severity, the unconceivableness of his strength, the bottomless guilt and malignity of sin, in the everlasting destruction of ungodly men, and in the everlasting apreserving of them to feel that destruction: Who knoweth the power of thy anger, saith Moses. Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath