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The divine life in three treatises
The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1664
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
5. Moreover, you have Peace of Conscience to obtain; and that dependeth upon your Peace with God. Conscience will be your accuser, condemner and tormentor, if you make it not your friend, by making God your friend. Consider what Conscience hath to say against you, and how certainly it will speak home, when you would be loth to hear it: and bethink you how to answer all its accusations, and what will be necessary to make it a messenger of Peace; and then think your business with God to be but small, if you are able. It is no easy matter to get assurance that God is reconciled to you, and that he hath forgiven all your sins.
5. Moreover, you have Peace of Conscience to obtain; and that dependeth upon your Peace with God. Conscience will be your accuser, condemner and tormenter, if you make it not your friend, by making God your friend. Consider what Conscience hath to say against you, and how certainly it will speak home, when you would be loth to hear it: and bethink you how to answer all its accusations, and what will be necessary to make it a messenger of Peace; and then think your business with God to be but small, if you are able. It is no easie matter to get assurance that God is reconciled to you, and that he hath forgiven all your sins.
6. In order to all this, you must be united to Jesus Christ, and be made his members, that you may have part in him, and that he may wash you by his blood, and that he may answer for you to his Father! woe to you if he be not your righteousness, and if you have not him to plead your cause, and take upon him your final justification! None else can save you from the wrath of God: And he is the Saviour only of his body, Eph. 5. 23. He hath dyed for you without your own consent, and he hath made an universal conditional grant of pardon and salvation, before you consented to it: But he will not be united to you, nor actually forgive and justify and save you without your own consent: And therefore that the Father may draw you to the Son, and may give you Christ and Life in him (1 Joh. 5. 9, 10, 11