A26892:1853
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
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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.
§. 30. 4. It is God only that hath power to execute his sentence, to our Happiness or Misery: There is one Lawgiver that is able to save and to destroy, Jam. 4. 12. If he say to us, Come ye blessed, we shall be happy though Devils and men should curse us: For those that he blesseth shall be blessed. If he condemn to hell, the applause of the world will •etch no man out, nor give him ease: A great name on earth, or histories written in their applause, or a gilded monument over their bones, are a poor relief to damned souls. And the barking of the wicked, and their scorns on earth, are no diminution to the joy or glory of the souls that shine and triumph with Christ. It is our Lord that hath the keys of death and Hell. Rev. 1. 18. Please him, and you are sure to scape, though the Pope and all the wicked of the world, should thunder out against you their most direful curses. Woe to us if the wicked could execute all their malicious censures! Then how many Saints would be in Hell? But if it be God that justify us, how inconsiderable a matter is it, who they are that condemn us? Or what be their pretences? Rom 8. 33.
§. 30. 4. It is God only that hath power to execute his sentence, to our Happin•ss or Misery: There is one Lawgiv•r that is able to save and to destroy, Iam. 4. 12. If he say to us, Come ye blessed, we shall be happy though Devils and men should curse us: For those that he blesseth shall be blessed. If he condemn to hell, the applause of the world will •etch no man out, nor give him ease: A great name on earth, or histories written in their applause, or a guilded monument over their bones, are a poor relief to damned souls. And the barking of the wicked, and their scorns on earth, are no diminution to the joy or glory of the souls that shine and triumph with Christ. It is our Lord that hath the keys of death and Hell. Rev. 1. 18. Please him, and you are sure to scape, though the Pope and all the wicked of the world, should thunder out against you their most direful curses. Woe to us if the wicked could execute all their malicious censures! Then how many Saints would be in Hell? But if it be God that justifie us, how inconsiderable a matter is it, who they are that condemn us? Or what be their pretenses? Rom 8. 33.