Encouragements promised to reformation: in a sermon preached before the Governors of the Magdalen Hospital, London ... the 2d of May, 1776 / [Robert Markham].

  • Markham, Robert, 1726 or 1727-1786
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1776
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Credit: Encouragements promised to reformation: in a sermon preached before the Governors of the Magdalen Hospital, London ... the 2d of May, 1776 / [Robert Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *3 ] Confidence, Sincerity and Truth, forbid it Chriftian Charity Herfelf, that any Hypocrite fhould prefume to think of com¬ pounding for his own Offences againft Chaftity in one Place (like a cc Purchafer of Pardon and Indulgence in the Church cc of Rome ”) by his pecuniary Penance, or pretended Support of Virtue in another. But I am willing to be perfuaded better Things of this Pro- teftant Audience, and things that accompany Salvation. I muft therefore hope it needlefs to inform any that now hear me, that the Eyes of the Lord are in every Place, beholding the evil and the goodj that there is no Darknefs where the Workers of Iniquity may hide themfelves, but all Things are open to our all-prefent Gon, who fhall bring to Light the hidden Things of Darknefs before the Judgment-Seat of Christ, that every Mortal may receive according to the Things done in the Body, « whether they be good, or whether they be evil. To this purpofe is the following awful Queftion from the Almighty by his holy Prophet Jeremiah ; Am I a God at hand, and not a God afar of faith the Lordf Can any hide himfelf in fecret Places, that I fall, not fee him ? Do not Ifill Heaven and Earth, faith the Lordf Let us now return to this truly Chriftian Inftitution of a Receptacle for penitent Offenders.—-Figure then to yourfelves You that have Daughters, or Sifters of your own: figure to your Minds, and fuppofe for a Moment that You faw before your Eyes your own Child, or the Child of your own Parents, your beloved Sifter, led aftray by fome artful Deceiver, fonxe infmuating Tempter, to facrifice her Innocence to his Luft, and afterwards, though betrayed, yet moft cruelly deferted by the Author, and Sharer of her Guilt-—Expofed, in confe-- quence,,