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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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2. A practical conviction, which is nothing else but a personal application of guilt & wrath, without 1which the notion of sin would be no trouble: let me open my mind thus unto you: That drunkenness, or swearing, or whoredom, or murder, or Sabbath breaking, &c. are sins; And that such persons who are guilty of them, (without Repentance) shall not inherit the kingdom of God, All this the sinner knows ⟨p. 11⟩already▪ and yet is not troubled, for as long as light rests in a bare Notion, it is only an addition to his understanding, It is no burden at all to his heart: But when this light slips down, and chargeth this sin and this wrath upon this very person, and shines so clearly in this charge, that the person cannot for his life deny it, thou art a drunkard, thou art this swearer, &c. And hereupon in the name of God arrests him with that wrath which God hath threatened unto that sin and sinner, now the sinner begins to consider, and tremble, and break.
2. A practicall conviction, which is nothing else but a personall application of guilt & wrath, without 1which the notion of sin would be no trouble: let me open my minde thus unto you: That drunkennesse, or swearing, or whoredome, or murder, or Sabbath breaking, &c. are sins; And that such persons who are guilty of them, (without Repentance) shall not inherit the kingdome of God, All this the sinner knowes ⟨p. 11⟩already▪ and yet is not troubled, for as long as light rests in a bare Notion, it is only an addition to his understanding, It is no burden at all to his heart: But when this light slips downe, and chargeth this sinne and this wrath upon this very person, and shines so clearely in this charge, that the person cannot for his life deny it, thou art a drunkard, thou art this swearer, &c. And hereupon in the name of God arrests him with that wrath which God hath threatned unto that sinne and sinner, now the sinner begins to consider, and tremble, and breake.