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The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House…
The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, January 27. 1646. at Margarets Westminster, being the day of their solemn monthly fast. / By Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Covent-Garden.The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, Ianuary 27. 1646. at Margarets Westminster, being the day of their solemn monthly fast. / By Obadiah Sedgvvick, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Covent-Garden.
London: printed by M.F. for Samuel Gellibrand, 1647
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Consider us as covenanting Christians: so we have every one of us bound our souls to God, (can any mortal creature here release us?) we have lifted up our hands to the most high God (in our several places) to extirpate heresies and false doctrines.
Consider us as covenanting Christians: so we have every one of us bound our souls to God, (can any mortall creature here release us?) we have lifted up our hands to the most high God (in our severall places) to extirpate heresies and false doctrines.
Yea, consider us as penitent Christians: fasting Christians should be so, they should be mourning Christians: And Christians who penitentially mourn, will mourn for the sins of others, as well as for their own sins. And they will mourn most, when God is dishonoured most: and can God be more dishonoured, then by blasphemies and damnable heresies? Put all these together, and then consider whether these sins of heresies and blasphemies should not wound our souls with grief, which have wounded our God with so much dishonour?
Yea, consider us as penitent Christians: fasting Christians should be so, they should be mourning Christians: And Christians who penitentially mourn, will mourn for the sins of others, as well as for their own sins. And they will mourn most, when God is dishonoured most: and can God be more dishonoured, then by blasphemies and damnable heresies? Put all these together, and then consider whether these sins of heresies and blasphemies should not wound our soules with grief, which have wounded our God with so much dishonour?
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