A sermon by Hugh Peters: preached before his death: as it was taken by a faithful hand. And now published for publick information. Entred according to order.
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- Title
- A sermon by Hugh Peters: preached before his death: as it was taken by a faithful hand. And now published for publick information. Entred according to order.
- Author
- Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.
- Publication
- London :: printed by John Best in Guiltspur-street, without Newgate,
- 1660.
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- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"A sermon by Hugh Peters: preached before his death: as it was taken by a faithful hand. And now published for publick information. Entred according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A90544.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
Pages
Page 17
TO THE Christian Reader.
Christian Reader,
THou hast here presented unto thy perusal a Sermon taken by a faithful hand, from the mouth of Mr. Hugh Peters, who dyed at Charing-Cross on Tuesaday last, being the sixteenth of this present Octob. 1660. Were the Orphant nameless, and did but any person (that had heard the Parent) take it in his hand and view it with his eye, he would (as its Godfather) Baptize it with the name it bears; let not its decent cause your censure, but your pitty, good Parents may have bad Children, but as God will not except the bad Children for the good Parents sake, so bad Parents may have good Children, and we must not cast off the good children for the bad Parents sake,
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but time is shortly coming when God will sit as Judge, upon Children and Parents: This Sermon is not as a Trumpet sounding Rebellion, but as a School-Master teaching Religion, its call is to be∣leiving, not to Rebelling.
Pass not your sentence upon it before your reading of it, which were to let your passion give the sen∣tence of condemnation, before your judgment hath sate upon the bench for examination.