4. Because this sin stands most in com∣petition with Christ for the heart. Other sins will be content with a mean enter∣tainment, but this sin must have the best, this sin must be served before Christ; look upon a man whose sin is Covetousness, a∣ny little thing as a cold morning will keep him from a Sermon, but rain, snow or blow, he will to the Market, Covetous∣ness, that must be served or else he is sick, though Christ he thinks may be content∣ed with once a moneth. O Friends, do not you cry out upon the Jews, and be worse than the Jews your selves, 18. John 39, 40. do you not deal worse with Christ for a lust, or you that can part with Christ for a pleasure; do you think that sin de∣serves your hearts better than Christ, why
Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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"Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53271.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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then can you not be perswaded to leave sin and follow Christ, but you chuse to follow your sins and leave Christ; every one that loves this sin, cries up Barabbas and denies Christ, you bid Christ be gon, as the Jews, away with this Fellow. As the Jews could not save Christ and Barab∣bas both together, so neither can we keep this sin and Christ both in one heart; all that entertain this sin, shut Christ out of their hearts.