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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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7. If after thou hast promised to God in a solemn way, that if he shall preserve thy estate, or restore thee to the enjoyment of it, thou wilt give it up to his honour; many thousands in this Kingdom have done thus of late in their earnest seekings of God for their preservation and deliverance. If when God shall settle thee again, thou forgettest him, regarding little the making good thy engagement to him, know, that not only sin, but sin with a high aggravation is upon thee.
7. If after thou hast promised to God in a solemne way, that if he shall preserve thy estate, or restore thee to the enjoyment of it, thou wilt give it up to his honour; many thousands in this Kingdome have done thus of late in their earnest seekings of God for their preservation and deliverance. If when God shall settle thee againe, thou forgettest him, regarding little the making good thy engagement to him, know, that not only sinne, but sinne with a high aggravation is upon thee.
8. If together with thy abundance the means of grace doth also abound, whereby thou mightst learn how to abound, and yet thou dost not know, nay you little mind it, this still increaseth the guilt of thy sin. If it were in times of Popery, of darkness, it were not ⟨p. 41⟩so much; but being at such a time, the guilt of thy sin is raised very high.
8. If together with thy aboundance the meanes of grace doth also abound, whereby thou mightst learne how to abound, and yet thou dost not know, nay you little mind it, this still encreaseth the guilt of thy sinne. If it were in times of Popery, of darknesse, it were not ⟨p. 41⟩so much; but being at such a time, the guilt of thy sinne is raised very high.