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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey…A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey…
A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemn and public humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughs. Published by order of the said House.A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughes. Published by order of the said House.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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7. Learn that the least sin is a greater evil, then all earthly prosperity can be good. When you commit any one sin, in that you are more miserable, then you can be happy in all your honours & estates. If you were throughly instructed in this, then 1. you would take heed of getting or preferring riches or honours by any way of sin. Abraham would not have it said, that the King of Sodom made him rich: let it never be said that sin hath made me rich, or preserved me being so.
7. Learne that the least sinne is a greater evill, then all earthly prosperity can be good. When you commit any one sinne, in that you are more miserable, then you can be happy in all your honours & estates. If you were throughly instructed in this, then 1. you would take heed of getting or preferring riches or honours by any way of sinne. Abraham would not have it said, that the King of Sodome made him rich: let it never be said that sinne hath made me rich, or preserved me being so.
2. If you had learned this, whatsoever you have or shall get by sin, you will certainly restore to the uttermost of your power.
2. If you had learned this, whatsoever you have or shall get by sinne, you will certainly restore to the uttermost of your power.
3. This would make you take heed of the abuse of what you have to sin: for it tells you you shall do your selves more hurt by any sin, then all you have in the world can do you good.
3. This would make you take heed of the abuse of what you have to sinne: for it tells you you shall doe your selves more hurt by any sinne, then all you have in the world can doe you good.