A26892:1749
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1 › Chapter 4 › Part 2: Directions against Hardness of Heart.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 4. Direct. 3. Remember how near the time is when stupidity and senseless neglect of God will be banished 1from all the world? and what certain and powerful means are before you at death and judgement, 2to awaken and pierce the hardest heart. There are but few that are quite insensible at Death: There are none past feeling after death, in Heaven or Hell. No man will stand before the Lord in the day of Judgement, with a sleepy or a senseless heart. God will recover your feeling by misery, if you will lose it by sin, and not recover it by grace. He can make you now a terror to your selves, Jer. 20. 4. He can make conscience say such things in secret to you, as you shall not be able to forget or slight. But if conscience awake you not, the approach of Death its likely will awake you; when you see that God is now in earnest with you, and that dye you must, and there is no remedy, will you not begin to think now whither must I go? and what will become of me for ever? Will you then harden your heart against God and his warnings? If you do, the first moment of your entrance upon Eternity, will cure your stupidity for ever. It would grieve a heart that is not stone, to think what a feeling stony hearted sinners will shortly have: When God will purposely make them feel, with his wrathful streams of fire and brimstone? When Satan that now hindereth your feeling, will do his worst to make you feel; and Conscience, the never dying Worm, will gnaw your hearts, and make them feel without ease or hope of remedy. Think what a wakening day is coming.
§. 4. Direct. 3. Remember how near the time is when stupidity and sensless neglect of God will be banished 1from all the world? and what certain and powerful means are before you at death and judgement, 2to awaken and pierce the hardest heart. There are but few that are quite insensible at Death: There are none past feeling after death, in Heaven or Hell. No man will stand before the Lord in the day of Judgement, with a sleepy or a sensless heart. God will recover your feeling by misery, if you will lose it by sin, and not recover it by grace. He can make you now a terror to your selves,