The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor (Volume 4); Sermons - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1850. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SERMON XVI. OP GROWTH IN SIN ! OB, THE SEVERAL STATES AND DEGREES OF SINNERS, WITH THE MANNER HOW THEY ARE TO BE TREATED. Jude 22, 23. And of gome lave compassion, making a difference ; and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire. Man hath but one entrance into the world, but a thousand way3 to pass from thence. And as it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual: nothing but the union of faith and obedience can secure our regeneration and our new birth, and can bring us to see the light of heaven; but there are a thousand passages of turning into darkness. And it is not enough that our bodies are exposed to so many sad infirmities and dishonourable imperfections, unless our soul also be a subject capable of so many diseases, follies, irregular passions, false principles, accursed m habits and degrees of perverseness, that the very kinds of them are reducible to a method, and make up the part of a science. There are variety of stages and descents to death, as there are diversity of torments, and of sad regions of misery in hell, which is the centre and kingdom of sorrows. But that we may a little refresh the sadnesses of this consideration; for every one of these stages of sin God hath measured out a proportion of mercy; for 'if sin abounds, grace shall much more abound0/ and 'God hath concluded all under sin/ not with purposes to destroy us, but ut omnium misereatur, 'that He might have mercy upon all";' that light may break forth from the deepest enclosures ot darkness, and mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice, and grace may triumph upon the ruins of sin, and God may be glorified in the miracles of our conversion, and the wonders of our preservation and glories of our being saved. There is no state of sin but, if we be perso...