A26939:192
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.
If you saw men offer Sacrifice to Bacchus or Venus, you would abhor it. Do not that which is so like it, as to leave bad men fuel for fleshly lust.
Reas. 10. It is the more dreadful, because it is dying in studied sin without repentance. To put so much sin into ones Will, shows a full consent and leaveth no room and time to repent of it.
Reas. 10. It is the more dreadful, because it is dying in studyed sin without repentance. To put so much sin into ones Will, shews a full consent and leaveth no room and time to repent of it.
On all these accounts I advise all the Stewards of God, as they love him and the public good and their own Souls, while they have opportunity, even to the last breath, to do good to all, and to provide more for the common good than for superfluities to any, and than for the maintaining ungodly Children in sin, to the increase of their guilt and misery.
On all these accounts I advise all the Stewards of God, as they love him and the publick good and their own Souls, while they have opportunity, even to the last breath, to do good to all, and to provide more for the common good than for superfluities to any, and than for the maintaining ungodly Children in sin, to the increase of their guilt and misery.