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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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4. If you enjoy your estates still, notwithstanding your consciences tell you that you have been guilty of very great abuse of them: What a wonder is it that God hath not violently rent away all from thee, or thee from what thou hast thus abused all this while; and dost thou continue to provoke God against thee still? is not thy former abuse of mercies enough, and too much, but wilt thou add farther? The Lord strike thy heart.
4. If you enjoy your estates still, notwithstanding your consciences tell you that you have been guiltie of very great abuse of them: What a wonder is it that God hath not violently rent away all from thee, or thee from what thou hast thus abused all this while; and dost thou continue to provoke God against thee still? is not thy former abuse of mercies enough, and too much, but wilt thou adde farther? The Lord strike thy heart.
5. If the mercies thou hast be renewed mercies, after ⟨p. 44⟩grievous afflictions have been upon thee, after God hath brought thee low, he hath restored a great deal again, it may be as much, if not more then you had formerly, and will you again abuse his mercies? with what face wilt thou look upon God, when thou shalt come to give an account of this?
5. If the mercies thou hast be renewed mercies, after ⟨p. 44⟩grievous afflictions have been upon thee, after God hath brought thee low, he hath restored a great deale againe, it may be as much, if not more then you had formerly, and will you againe abuse his mercies? with what face wilt thou look upon God, when thou shalt come to give an account of this?