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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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IV. And it is evident in Experience, that it is the Gospel of Christ which God useth and blesseth, to do this great sanctifying work on Souls. Among Christians none are converted by any other means And God would not bless a word of falsehood and deceit to such great ⟨p. 279⟩and excellent effects: All that are made holy and heavenly and truly conscionable among us, are made so by Christ's Gospel: And all the wicked are Enemies to the serious practice of it, or Rebels that despise it. The effects daily prove that God himself owneth it as his Word.
IV. And it is evident in Experience, that it is the Gospel of Christ which God useth and blesseth, to do this great sanctifying work on Souls. Among Christians none are converted by any other means And God would not bless a word of falshood and deceit to such great ⟨p. 279⟩and excellent effects: All that are made holy and heavenly and truly conscionable among us, are made so by Christ's Gospel: And all the wicked are Enemies to the serious practice of it, or Rebels that despise it. The effects daily prove that God himself owneth it as his Word.
If you say, There are as good men among the Heathens and Mahometans, as holy heavenly, and just:
I answer, It is none of my business to depreciate other men: But I can say, 1. That I have lived above Sixty seven years, and I never knew one serious holy Person in England that was made such by the Writings of Heathens or Mahometans. 2. Many excellent things are in the Writings of some Heathens, Plato, Cicero, Hierocles, Plutarch, Antonine, Epictetus, and many others. But I miss in them the expressions of that holy and heavenly frame of mind and life, and that Victory over the Flesh and World, which Christianity containeth.