Early English Printed Sermons


The law and equity of the gospel, or, The goodness of our Lord as a legislator delivered first from the pulpit in two plain sermons, and now repeated from the press with others tending to the same end ... by Thomas Pierce ...

Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691
Publisher: Printed by S Roycroft for Robert Clavell
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1686
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A54843 ESTC ID: R38205 STC ID: P2185
Subject Headings: Christian life; Providence and government of God;
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In-Text For what was This but to presume (as St. Peter once did) on their Ghostly strength? and so to tempt God himself to withdraw his Grace from them, (as he did for a time from St. Peter also,) to make them know their own Weakness without his Succours? The greatest Luminaries on Earth being fitly by him compar'd to those famous Lamps, of which 'tis said by Licetus, that they continued under Ground no less than Sixteen Hundred years, but went out, and were extinguish't, as soon as brought into the Air. And truly considering what Examples we have in History of men, who by the Tenure of their Privacy did hold their Innocence, but becoming Publick Persons were straight undone by their Advancements, For what was This but to presume (as Saint Peter once did) on their Ghostly strength? and so to tempt God himself to withdraw his Grace from them, (as he did for a time from Saint Peter also,) to make them know their own Weakness without his Succours? The greatest Luminaries on Earth being fitly by him compared to those famous Lamps, of which it's said by Licetus, that they continued under Ground no less than Sixteen Hundred Years, but went out, and were extinguished, as soon as brought into the Air. And truly considering what Examples we have in History of men, who by the Tenure of their Privacy did hold their Innocence, but becoming Public Persons were straight undone by their Advancements, p-acp r-crq vbds d p-acp p-acp vvb (c-acp n1 np1 a-acp vdd) p-acp po32 j n1? cc av pc-acp vvi np1 px31 pc-acp vvi po31 n1 p-acp pno32, (c-acp pns31 vdd p-acp dt n1 p-acp n1 np1 av,) pc-acp vvi pno32 vvi po32 d n1 p-acp po31 n2? dt js n2 p-acp n1 vbg av-j p-acp pno31 vvn p-acp d j n2, pp-f r-crq pn31|vbz vvn p-acp np1, cst pns32 vvd p-acp n1 av-dx dc cs crd crd n2, p-acp vvd av, cc vbdr vvn, c-acp av c-acp vvn p-acp dt n1. cc av-j vvg r-crq n2 pns12 vhb p-acp n1 pp-f n2, r-crq p-acp dt n1 pp-f po32 n1 vdd vvi po32 n1, p-acp j-vvg j n2 vbdr av-j vvn p-acp po32 n2,




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