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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.
Qu. 4. What saith your own experience, and how hath God dealt with you in the time that is past? Hath not your suffering done you good. If it have not, you may thank your selves: For I am sure Gods rod hath a healing virtue, and others have received a cure by it. How much is mankind beholden to the Cross? When David went weeping up mount Olivet, he was in a safer case, than when he was gazing on Bathsheba from his battlements? And when Christ was sweating blood upon mount Olivet, 1it was a sign that mans Redemption was in hand: and when he was bleeding on the Cross, and drinking vinegar and gall, it was almost finished. And if the Cross hath born such happy fruit, what reason have we to be so much against it? If it have proved good for you that you were afflicted, and no part of your lives have been more fruitful, why should your desires so much contradict your own experience? If bitter things have proved the most wholesome, and a full and luscious diet hath caused your disease, what need you more, to direct your judgment, if you will judge as men, and not as brutes?
Qu. 4. What saith your own experience, and how hath God dealt with you in the time that is past? Hath not your suffering done you good. If it have not, you may thank your selves: For I am sure Gods rod hath a healing virtue, and others have received a cure by it. How much is mankind beholden to the Cross? When David went weeping up mount Olivet, he was in a safer case, than when he was gazing on Bathsheba from his battlements? And when Christ was sweating blood upon mount Olivet, 1it was a sign that mans Redemption was in hand: and when he was bleeding on the Cross, and drinking vinegar and gall, it was almost finished. And if the Cross hath born such happy fruit, what reason have we to be so much against it? If it have proved good for you that you were afflicted, and no part of your lives have been more fruitful, why should your desires so much contradict your own experience? If bitter things have proved the most wholsom, and a full and luscious dyet hath caused your disease, what need you more, to direct your judgment, if you will judge as men, and not as bruits?