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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
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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.
Use. 2. If this be Gods Method, condemn not then the generation use 2 of the just, because you see them undermost in the world, and ⟨p. 14⟩suffer more than other men. Think it not a dishonour to them to be in poverty, prisons, banishment, or reproach, unless it be for a truly dishonourable cause. Call not men miserable, for that which God maketh the token of his love, and the Prognostic of their joy. Methinks he that hath once read the Psal. 37. & 73. and Mat. 5.10, 11, 12. & Joh. 13. & 15. & 2 Thes. 1. and well believeth them, should never err this old condemned Error any more. And yet it is common among carnal men, to do as some beasts do, when one of their fellows is wounded they all forsake him: so these stand looking with pity, or fear, or strangeness upon a man that is under sufferings and slanders, as if it must needs be a deserved thing; and think it a great dishonour to a man how innocent soever, when they hear that he is used as offenders & malefactors are; forgetting how by this, they condemn their Saviour, and all his Apostles and Martyrs, and the wisest, best, and happyest men that the earth hath born. And all this is but the blind and hasty judgment of sense and unbelief, which hath neither the wit to judge by the word of God, nor yet the patience to stay the end, and see how the sorrows of the godly will conclude, and where the triumph of the hypocrite will leave him.
Vse. 2. If this be Gods Method, condemn not then the generation use 2 of the just, because you see them undermost in the world, and ⟨p. 14⟩suffer more than other men. Think it not a dishonour to them to be in poverty, prisons, banishment, or reproach, unless it be for a truly dishonourable cause. Call not men miserable, for that which God maketh the token of his love, and the Prognostick of their joy. Methinks he that hath once read the Psal. 37. & 73. and