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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.
Though pride do compass them about as a Chain, and violence cover them as a Garment, and they are corrupt and speak oppression or calumny wickedly, they speak loftily (or from on high) Though they set their mouth against the Heavens, and their tongue walketh through the Earth, yet surely they are set in slippery places. God doth cast them down into destruction: How are they brought into desolation as in a moment? They are utterly consumed with terrors; as a *Dream from one that awaketh, so, O Lord, in awaking, (or raising up, that is, saith the Chaldee Paraphrase, in thy day of judging) or as all the other Translations, in civitate tuâ, in thy Kingdom or Government) thou shalt ⟨p. 20⟩despise their Image, that is, show them and all the World how despicable that Image of greatness and power, and felicity was which they were so proud of. If such a *bubble of vain glory, such an Image of felicity, such a Dream of power and greatness, be all that the Church of God hath to be afraid of, it may be well said, as Isa. 2.22. Cease ye from Man whose Breath is in his Nostrils? For wherein is he to be accounted of? 3Psal. 146.4. His Breath goeth forth, he returneth to his Earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. And Isa. 50.9. Behold the Lord God will help me, who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they all shall wax old as a Garment; the Moth shall eat them up. And Isa. 51.7, 8. Hearken unto me ye that know righteousness, the People in whose heart is my law: Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings: For the Moth shall eat them up like a Garment, and the Worm shall eat them like Wool: But my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. The sorrows which so short-lived power can infl•ct, can be but short: You read of their Victories and Persecutions in the News-books one year, and quickly after of their death.