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The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before…
The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Council, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Councel, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1659
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2. To walk worthy of this glorious mercy to adorn the doctrine of the Gospel, by lives answerable unto it, as those that have avouched the Lord for their God, and Christ for their King, Phil. 1. 27. Tit. 2. 10, 14. 1It was a pious and devout Meditation of Picus Mirandala, who professed himself amazed at the studies, or rather frenzies of men, both to be wondered at the lamented, ⟨p. 27⟩for if it be a great madness for men not to believe the Gospel, the truth whereof hath been confirmed by the witness of Apostles, the blood of Martyrs, the power of Miracles, the attestation of Elements, the confession of Devils; It is then certainly a greater madnesse, Si de Evangelii veritate non dubitas, vivere tamen quasi de ejus falsitate non dubitares: to profess to believe the torments of hell, and the joys of Heaven, and yet so to live, as if we feared nothing less then Hell, or desired nothing less then Heaven. Certainly our plagues will be answerable to our Talents if we have not improved them, Luk. 12. 47.
2. To walk worthy of this glorious mercy to adorne the doctrine of the Gospel, by lives answerable unto it, as those that have avouched the Lord for their God, and Christ for their King, Phil. 1. 27. Tit. 2. 10, 14. 1It was a pious and devout Meditation of Picus Mirandala, who professed himself amaz'd at the studies, or rather frenzies of men, both to be wondered at the lamented, ⟨p. 27⟩for if it be a great madnesse for men not to believe the Gospel, the truth whereof hath been confirmed by the witnesse of Apostles, the blood of Martyrs, the power of Miracles, the attestation of Elements, the confession of Devils; It is then certainly a greater madnesse, Si de Evangelii veritate non dubitas, vivere tamen quasi de ejus falsitate non dubitares: to professe to believe the torments of hell, and the joyes of Heaven, and yet so to live, as if we feared nothing lesse then Hell, or desired nothing lesse then Heaven. Certainly our plagues will be answerable to our Talents if we have not improved them,