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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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A SERMON PREACHED at a late FAST, before the Right Honourable the H… › APPLICATION.
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1. If you abuse your abundance, when others suffer want, when thousands are ready to perish for want of necessaries, as at this day, how great is then your sin before God? it hath now a loud cry in Gods ears against you.
1. If you abuse your abundance, when others suffer want, when thousands are ready to perish for want of necessaries, as at this day, how great is then your sinne before God? it hath now a loud cry in Gods eares against you.
2. When God hath raised you from mean beginnings, the more remarkable Gods hand appears in giving you abundance, the greater is your sin in the abuse of it.
2. When God hath raised you from meane beginnings, the more remarkable Gods hand appeares in giving you abundance, the greater is your sinne in the abuse of it.
3. If your estates have been preserved through many difficulties, and that divers times when you have even given all for gone, yet God hath come in and continued to you the enjoyment of a very full estate. What do you think in your consciences was Gods end in continuing it to you? Was it that you should yet have farther opportunity to satisfy your lusts, and to be hinderers of good, and promoters of evil in the places where you live? God forbid.
3. If your estates have been preserved through many difficulties, and that divers times when you have even given all for gone, yet God hath come in and continued to you the enjoyment of a very full estate. What doe you think in your consciences was Gods end in continuing it to you? Was it that you should yet have farther opportunity to satisfie your lusts, and to be hinderers of good, and promoters of evill in the places where you live? God forbid.