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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. You who have rich friends, you see what cause you have to pray much for them, they are set in slippery places, no men have more need of prayers then they.
5. But the close of all is a word of Exhortation. Set your hearts to these truths God hath this day set before you. Right Honourable and beloved, consider what a mercy it is to you, that the greatest work you have to do, is to improve mercies. The work of thousand thousands is to get mercies, you have them, and all you have to do from morning to night is to bless God for mercies, and to improve them. If God hath taught you this lesson to know how to abound, bless his Name. What? all this honour, this great estate, and heaven too? What? shall these things which are means of undoing others, help forward my salvation? how excellent is thy loving kindness, oh Lord!
5. But the close of all is a word of Exhortation. Set your hearts to these truths God hath this day set before you. Right Honourable and beloved, consider what a mercy it is to you, that the greatest work you have to doe, is to improve mercies. The work of thousand thousands is to get mercies, you have them, and all you have to doe from morning to night is to blesse God for mercies, and to improve them. If God hath taught you this lesson to know how to abound, blesse his Name. What? all this honour, this great estate, and heaven too? What? shall these things which are means of undoing others, help forward my salvation? how excellent is thy loving kindnesse, oh Lord!
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