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Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted…
Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted to deny it, and think him cruel, because of the present and future misery of mankind, with respect to the doctrine of reprobation and damnation / by Richard Baxter ... ; published and prefaced by a friend at whose desire it was written, and to whom it was committed.
London: printed for N. Simmons, 1671
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.
Quest. 18. Yea is this accusing God, a fit employment for that person, who liveth in a Land of mercies; who hath been bred up in mercy, preserved by mercy, […] differenced by saving mercy from the ungodly; who hath been called from blindness, ⟨p. 45⟩carnality and profaneness, and entertained many a time in holy Worship with God; who hath been washed in Christs blood and Justified from so many and grievous sins, and made of an enemy an adopted Child, and of an heir of Hell, an heir of Heaven, and all this by the tender mercies of a provoked God, a gracious Redeemer, and a holy Sanctifier? Shall this person? I say, this, be one that instead of praising God with the raptures of continual Joy, shall turn his accuser? O let the guilty that readeth this, stop here, and fall down on his knees to God, ⟨p. 46⟩and melt into tears in the sense of such unkindness.
Quest. 18. Yea is this accusing God, a fit employment for that person, who liveth in a Land of mercies; who hath been bred up in mercy, preserved by mercy, 〈…〉 differenced by saving mercy from the ungodly; who hath been called from blindness, ⟨p. 45⟩carnality and prophaneness, and entertained many a time in holy Worship with God; who hath been washed in Christs blood and Justified from so many and grievous sins, and made of an enemy an adopted Child, and of an heir of Hell, an heir of Heaven, and all this by the tender mercies of a provoked God, a gratious Redeemer, and a holy Sanctifier? Shall this person? I say, this, be one that instead of praising God with the raptures of continual Joy, shall turn his accuser? O let the guilty that readeth this, stop here, and fall down on his knees to God, ⟨p. 46⟩