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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
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.
London: printed by R. B. for Samuel Gellibrand, 1642
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Fourthly, you must put off prejudices: If the great work of Church-Reformation seems to any of you either sordid and contemptible, or hopeless and impossible, or needless and idle, or unseasonable and inconvenient; you will either be formal in attempts, or subtle to entangle, or professedly opposite to crush the work, and bring it to nothing; But yet Worthies of our Israel, know, that Reformation is
Fourthly, you must put off prejudices: If the great work of Church-Reformation seemes to any of you either fordid and contemptible, or hopelesse and impossible, or needlesse and idle, or unseasonable and inconvenient; you will either be formall in attempts, or subtle to entangle, or professedly opposite to crush the work, and bring it to nothing; But yet Worthies of our Israel, know, that Reformation is
An Honourable work: It is a work fit for a 1God, fit for the greatest Monarchs on earth; and the greatest Reformers in Religion have attained thereby to the greatest splendour and glory, as Hezekiah, Jehoshaphat, Josiah, King Edward, &c.
An Honourable work: It is a work fit for a 1God, fit for the greatest Monarchs on earth; and the greatest Reformers in Religion have attained thereby to the greatest splendor and glory, as Hezekiah, Iehosophat, Iosiah, King Edward, &c.
- 1Honourable to you, and honourable to the Church, which the more pure it is, the more excellent it is.