England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the only way to prevent destroying judgementsEngland's preservation or, a sermon discovering the onely way to prevent destroying judgements

Name: England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the only way to prevent destroying judgements
Author: Obadiah Sedgwick

England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the only way to prevent destroying judgements: preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their last solemn fast, being on May, 25. 1642. By Obadiah Sedgwick Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that house.England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the onely way to prevent destroying judgements: preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their last solemne fast, being on May, 25. 1642. By Obadiah Sedgwicke Batchelour in Divinity and minister of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that house.

Obadiah Sedgwick 1600?–1658London: printed by R. B. for Samuel Gellibrand, 1642

[8], 52 p. · 15k words · Wing S2372 · ESTC R212706

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There is (beloved) such a natural concatenation twixt all vices (and so there is amongst virtues) That they (in a formal working) ever include an universal hatred, or an universal love: No man can be interpreted good, who is at defiance with any known particular good, nor doth he cease to be wicked, who doth not hate and oppose every known evil: particular and exclusive actings in the one and in the other serve only to the disacceptance of the works, and to the greater condemnation of the persons.

There is (beloved) such a naturall concatenation twixt all vices (and so there is amongst vertues) That they (in a formall working) ever include an universall hatred, or an universall love: No man can be interpreted good, who is at defiance with any knowne particular good, nor doth hee cease to bee wicked, who doth not hate and oppose every knowne evill: particular and exclusive actings in the one and in the other serve onely to the disacceptance of the workes, and to the greater condemnation of the persons.

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Though Imbecility shall never be any prejudice to our works, yet subtlety and partiality shall.

Though Imbecility shall never bee any prejudice to our works, yet subtiltie and partialitie shall.

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3. When they are but circumstantial: though a multitude of lesser evils be crushed, if yet the greater are spared to survive, This Reformation will prove like Sauls discretion with the Amalekites, ¹who spared the fattest and destroyed the poorest, but he lost the kingdom by it.

3. When they are but circumstantiall: though a multitude of lesser evills bee crushed, if yet the greater are spared to survive, This Reformation will prove like Sauls discretion with the Amalekites,

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