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Richard Baxter's farewell sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster…Richard Baxter's farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster…
Richard Baxter's farewell sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure, but forbidden.Richard Baxter's farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure, but forbidden.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1683
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.
II. Flatter not your selves with the hopes of long Life on Earth, but make it the sum of all your Religion, Care and Business, to be ready for a safe and comfortable Death: For 'till you can fetch comfort from the Life to come, you can have no comfort that true reason can justify.
II. Flatter not your selves with the hopes of long Life on Earth, but make it the summ of all your Religion, Care and Business, to be ready for a safe and comfortable Death: For 'till you can fetch comfort from the Life to come, you can have no comfort that true reason can justify.
III. Live as in a constant War against all fleshly lusts, and love not the World as it cherisheth those lusts: Take heed of the love of Money, as the root of manifold evils: Think of Riches with more Fear than Desire: Seeing Christ hath told us, how hard and dangerous it maketh our way to Heaven. When once a Man falls deeply in love with Riches, he is never to be trusted, but becomes false to God, to all others, and to himself.
III. Live as in a constant War against all fleshly lusts, and love not the World as it cherisheth those lusts: Take heed of the love of Mony, as the root of manifold evils: Think of Riches with more Fear than Desire: Seeing Christ hath told us, how hard and dangerous it maketh our way to Heaven. When once a Man falls deeply in love with Riches, he is never to be trusted, but becomes false to God, to all others, and to himself.
IV. Be furnished before hand with expectation and patience, for all evils that may befall you: And make not too great a matter of sufferings, especially Poverty, or wrong from Men. It is sin and folly in poor Men, that they over-value Riches, and be not thankful for their peculiar Blessings. I am in hopes that God will give you more quietness than many others, because there are none of you rich: Its a great means of safety to