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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A Sermon Preached at the late Fast, to the Commons House OF PARLIAM… › 3. The consequent working.

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Beloved! when sins are pardoned then,¹

Beloved! when sinnes are pardoned then,¹

12. Effects of sins pardoned.

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1. All their guilty clamour is silenced: pardoned sins are disabled sins, they can bring no action against ⟨p. 17⟩us, debts forgiven shall never prejudice nor hurt us: Sins unpardoned can raise posse comitatus, all the Armies ¹of God in Heaven and Earth against sinners, but once pardoned, they are of no force or strength at all.

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And secondly, when sins are pardoned, all good hath a free passage; God is reconciled, and mercies have their Commission to attend us: Now saith the Lord, I will hear the Heavens, and they shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the Corn, and the Wine ¹and the Oil, and they shall hear Jezreel.

And secondly, when sins are pardoned, all good hath a free passage; God is reconciled, and mercies have their Commission to attend us: Now saith the Lord, I will heare the Heavens, and they shall heare the earth, and the earth shall heare the Corne, and the Wine

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