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A Christians duty and safety in evil times Delivered in several sermons, upon four…A Christians duty and safety in evill times Delivered in severall sermons, upon four…
A Christians duty and safety in evil times Delivered in several sermons, upon four texts of scripture, viz. Christ's prayer the saints support, on John 17 15[.] A divine balance to weigh all doctrines by, on 1 Thes.5. 21[.] A Christians great enquiry, on Acts 16.30, 31[.] A description of true blessedness, on Luke 11. 28[.] By that faithful messenger of Jesus Christ, Mr Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence-jury, London. Whereunto is annexed The saints rest, or Their happy sleep in death. As it was delivered in a sermon at Aldermanbury, London. Aug. 24. 1651. By Edmund Calalmy. B. D.A Christians duty and safety in evill times Delivered in severall sermons, upon four texts of scripture, viz. Christ's prayer the saints support, on Iohn 17 15[.] A divine ballance to weigh all doctrines by, on 1 Thes.5. 21[.] A Christians great enquiry, on Acts 16.30, 31[.] A description of true blessedness, on Luke 11. 28[.] By that faithfull messenger of Jesus Christ, Mr Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence-jury, London. Whereunto is annexed The saints rest, or Their happy sleep in death. As it was delivered in a sermon at Aldermanbury, London. Aug. 24. 1651. By Edmund Calalmy. B. D.
London: printed for E. Brewster and George Sawbridge, 1653
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First, Hath God taken those Methods with your souls, 1that he takes with those whom he intends to save. But you will say, what are those Methods that God takes with a sinner whom he intends to save? I Answer, First God enlightens that mans mind, 2so, as that he makes him see his sins to be exceeding sinful, and himself to be exceeding miserable; 3you have an admirable Text for this, Job 33.27, ⟨p. 116⟩29, 30. He looketh upon men, and if any man say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the Pit, and his life shall see the light: Lo all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the Pit, to be Enlightened with the light of the living. It is Gods usual way in bringing a sinner from Hell, to represent his sins unto him in the glass of the Law, so as to cause him to see them to be exceeding sinful, to cause him to confess his sinfulness, how that he hath perverted that which was right. Paul said he was alive without the Law, but when the Law came, then he saw his sin to be exceeding sinful. 4Rom. 7.13. Was that which is good made death unto me? God forbid, but sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me, by that which is good; that sin by the Commandment might become exceeding sinful. Sin in its own nature is so exceeding evil that it cannot have a worse name ⟨p. 117⟩given unto it then its own sinful sin Beloved, if the Lord hath dealt thus with you, so as to make you see your sins to be exceeding sinful, and your selves to be exceeding miserable; know, this is the method that he takes with that soul, which he intends to bring to Heaven.