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How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life…How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life…
How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Rob. Gibs, 1682
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.
6. Stewards must give account of all: What would you wish were the matter of your true account, if death or judgment were to morrow? Would you not wish you had done all the good you could? Do you believe that all shall be Judged according to their Works? Did you ever well study that great prediction of Christ? Matth. 25.
And it is some part of a reward on Earth that men that do much good, especially that to whole Nations, are usually honoured by Posterity, however they be rewarded by the present Age.
And it is some part of a reward on Earth that men that do much good, especially that to whole Nations, are usualy honoured by Posterity, however they be rewarded by the present Age.
7. Every true Christian is absolutely devoted to do good. What else is it to be devoted to God our Creator and Redeemer? Wha• live we for, or what should we desire to live for, but to do good?