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And to the said house or temple of God, at times by common order appointed, are all people that be godly indeed bound with all diligence to resort, unless by sickness or other most urgent causes they be letted therefrom.

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There is nothing that the Holy Ghost doth so much labour in all the Scriptures to beat into men's heads, as repentance, amendment of life and speedy returning unto the Lord God of hosts.

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Let us not therefore be slack to do good works, seeing it is the will of God that we should walk in them, assuring ourselves that at the last day every man shall receive of God for his labour done in true faith, a greater reward than his works have deserved.

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Good works then bring not forth grace but are brought forth by grace. The wheel, saith he, 'turneth round, not to the end that it may be made round, but because it is first made round, therefore it turneth round.

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Christ that innocent lamb of God hath bought us from the servitude of the devil, "not with corruptible gold and silver, but with his most precious" and dear heart "blood".

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And if we turn to Him with an humble and a very penitent heart, He will receive us to His favour and grace for His holy name's sake, for His promise sake, for His truth and mercy's sake

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If God hateth sin so much that he would allow neither man nor angel for the redemption thereof, but only the death of his only and well-beloved Son, who will not stand in fear thereof?

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Our debt was a great deal too great for us to have paid and without payment God the Father could never be at one with us, neither was it possible to be loosed from this debt by our own ability.

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For not only they which nailed Christ upon the cross are his tormentors and crucifiers, but all they saith Saint Paul, crucify again the Son of God, as much as is in them, which do commit vice and sin, which brought him to his death.

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So pleasant was this sacrifice and oblation of his Son's death, which he so obediently and innocently suffered, that he would take it for the only and full amends for all the sins of the world.

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No tongue surely is able to express the worthiness of this so precious a death. For in this standeth the continual pardon of our daily offences, in this resteth our justification, in this we be allowed, in this is purchased the everlasting health of all our souls;

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First he sent his angels to the sepulchre, which did show unto certain women the empty grave, saving that the burial linen remained therein, and by these signs were these women fully instructed that he was risen again, and so did they testify it openly.

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Jesus himself appeared to Mary Magdalene, and after that to other certain women, and straight afterward he appeared to Peter, then to the two disciples which were going to Emmaus.

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As he died not for himself, no more did he rise again for himself. He was dead, saith Saint Paul, for our sins and rose again for our justification. O most comfortable word, evermore to be borne in remembrance!

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His death took away sin and malediction, his death was the ransom of them both, his death destroyed death and overcame the devil, which had the power of death in his subjection; his death destroyed hell with all the damnation thereof.

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Thus at sundry times he showed himself after he was risen again, to confirm and stablish this article. And in these revelations sometime he showed them his hands, his feet and his side and bade them touch him, that they should not take him for a ghost or a spirit;

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it pleased him to deliver himself of all his godly honour, which he was equally in with his Father in heaven, and to come down into this vale of misery, to be made mortal man and to be in the state of a most low servant,