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Making light of Christ and salvation too oft the issue of gospel invitations manifested…
Making light of Christ and salvation too oft the issue of gospel invitations manifested in a sermon preached at Lawrence-dury, in London, by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1691
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.
You hear Brethren what will not serve the turn; Will you now hear what persons you must be if you would not be condemned as slighters of Christ? O search whether it be thus with your Souls, or no.
1. Your esteem of Christ and Salvation, must be greater than your esteem of all the Honours, Profits, or Pleasures of this World, or else you slight him: No less will be accounted sincere, or accepted to your Salvation: Think not this hard, when there is no comparison in the matters esteemed. To esteem the greatest Glory on Earth before Christ and Everlasting Glory, is a greater Folly, and Wrong to Christ, than to esteem a Dog before your Prince, would be folly in you, and a wrong to him. Scripture is plain in this, Mat. 10. 37. He that loveth Father or Mother, Wife, Children, House, Land, or his own Life more than me, is not worthy of me, and cannot be my Disciple, as Luke 14. 26.
1. Your esteem of Christ and Salvation, must be greater than your esteem of all the Honors, Profits, or Pleasures of this World, or else you slight him: No less will be accounted sincere, or accepted to your Salvation: Think not this hard, when there is no comparison in the matters esteemed. To esteem the greatest Glory on Earth before Christ and Everlasting Glory, is a greater Folly, and Wrong to Christ, than to esteem a Dog before your Prince, would be folly in you, and a wrong to him. Scripture is plain in this, Mat. 10. 37. He that loveth Father or Mother, Wife, Children, House, Land, or his own Life more than me, is not worthy of me, and cannot be my Disciple, as Luke 14. 26.