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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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A DESCRIPTION OF True Blessedness.A DESCRIPTION OF True Blessednesse.
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1. 1Thy hearing, if thou dost not practise what thou hearest, will but aggravate thy condemnation another day. John 15.22. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin, but now they have no cloak for their ⟨p. 161⟩sin. The fault admits of some extenuation, 2where there is no knowledge of the fault; it is a far greater sin to contemn the known Law of God, then to be ignorant of the Law of God; they that sin against knowledge, have no cloak nor excuse for their sin. *That servant which knew his Lords Will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his Will, shall be beaten with many stripes. In Isaiah 13. we read of many Nations and People, against whom the Lord commands the Prophet, to denounce a burdensome Prophesy. But in Isaiah 22 we read of the burden of the valley of visions, that is, of Jerusalem, and it is observed that that burden was the heaviest of all others, none so burdensome as the burden of the valley of visions: It was a place where knowledge was, where preaching was, therefore that burden was heavier then against Babylon, Tire, Damascus, and all the rest. Though other men that live in the American ⟨p. 162⟩parts of the World, shall go to Hell, for their disobedience: Yet remember, thou that livest in England, where the Gospel is profest & preached, shalt go to Hell with an heavier load on thy Conscience, then those that have not the Gospel; thou shalt be damned with a witness, that hearest the Word of God, and makest no Conscience to practise what thou hearest, and what thou knowest. It would make one stand amazed to read that passage Jer. 10.35. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen, that know thee not. Now if the fury of the Lord shall be poured out upon poor ignorant Heathens that know not God, that have not the means of knowledge, that hear not of the Gospel of Christ! what wrath shall then be poured out upon the Christians that know not God? but above all, what unexpressible fury and vengeance shall be poured out upon those Christians that sin against the Knowledge of God, that sin against Light shining clearly