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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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But it's one thing to be of a profest Religion, because it is the Religion of the King and Country, and therefore maketh for men's worldly advantage, and they hear little said against it: This is the case of most in the ⟨p. 276⟩World, Christians, Mahometans and Heathens: And it's another to be a serious Believer, who upon trial and consideration chooseth Christianity.
But it's one thing to be of a profest Religion, because it is the Religion of the King and Countrey, and therefore maketh for men's worldly advantage, and they hear little said againft it: This is the case of most in the ⟨p. 276⟩World, Christians, Mahometans and Heathens: And it's another to be a serious Believer, who upon trial and consideration chooseth Christianity.
And it is notorious that such serious Christians are all Holy, Sober, and Just, and so greatly differing from the corrupted World, as fully proveth that God owneth that Gospel which he maketh so effectual to so great a change.
Here consider, 1. What that change is; 2. How hard and great a work it is: 3. That it is certainly a work of God. 4. That the Gospel is the means by which God doth it.