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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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Lastly, it is a seasonable work: If you judge it a fit season for our Church to be humbled, assuredly then it is a fit season for it to be reformed: that which puts us upon the one, directs us also to the other; but I pass on.
Lastly, it is a seasonable work: If you judge it a fit season for our Church to be humbled, assuredly then it is a fit season for it to be reformed: that which puts us upon the one, directs us also to the other; but I passe on.
Secondly, If you would carry on this work for good, then you must get into your hearts, ⟨p. 49⟩and cherish in your thoughts all those things which will quicken you to the perfecting of such a work.
First, you must labour to possess your hearts with those active, industrious, and unwearied graces of self-denial, of ardent love of God, of inflamed zeal for his glory, and of sublime faith, which will raise your spirits above all difficulties and oppositions, above all clouds and seas: were men thus qualified, they would then count nothing too dear, or too much for God, but would most cheerfully spend and be spent for him, they would lend all their honours, places, gifts, abilities, all to the service of Christ.
First, you must labour to possesse your hearts with those active, industrious, and unwearied graces of selfe-deniall, of ardent love of God, of enflamed zeale for his glory, and of sublime faith, which will raise your spirits above all difficulties and oppositions, above all clouds and seas: were men thus qualified, they would then count nothing too deare, or too much for God, but would most cheerefully spend and be spent for him, they would lend all their honours, places, gifts, abilities, all to the service of Christ.