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

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A Sermon Preached at the late Fast, to the Commons House OF PARLIAM…: A Sermon Preached at the late Fast, to the Commons House OF PARLIAMENT.

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So then (to stop all quotations) the fallow ground ¹is nothing else but the sinful estate of a person or Nation; And it is very aptly so described by reason of that consimilitude which the one hath with the other, For;

So then (to stop all quotations) the fallow ground ¹is nothing else but the sinfull estate of a person or Nation; And it is very aptly so described by reason of that consimilitude which the one hath with the other, For;

1The Fallow ground is the sinful heart.The Fallow ground is the sinfull heart.

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First, Fallow ground is a barren piece of earth: a Tohu and Bohu as at the first, void of all excellency and beauty: There is not one grain of good seed ¹in it, nor any one delightful flower; such a desert is mans sinful heart: It is a very (Inane & Nihilum) vanity and vanity, no divine excellency is to be found there; Not any one effect, nor any one seed of spiritual inclination: For this, It may answer as the depth did for wisdom, It is not in me.²

First, Fallow ground is a barren piece of earth: a Tohu and Bohu as at the first, voyd of all excellency and beauty: There is not one graine of good seed ¹in it, nor any one delightfull flower; such a desart is mans sinfull heart: It is a very (Inane & Nihilum) vanity and vanity, no divine excellency is to be found there; Not any one effect, nor any one seed of spirituall inclination: For this, It may answer as the depth did for wisedome, It is not in me.

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