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Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and…
Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and the opposers and neglecters convinced by the light of Scripture and reason / by Richard Baxter ...
London : s.n., 1662
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.
Qu. 1. Can I do no more then this for God! Who gave me all? Who deserveth all? Who seeth me in my duties and my sins? When he puts me purposely on the trial, what I can do for his sake and service, Can I do no more? Can I love him no more? and obey, and watch, and work no more?
Qu. 2. Can I do no more then this for Christ? For him that did so much for me? that lived so exactly; obeyed so perfectly; walked so inoffensively and meekly; despising all the baits, and honours, and riches of the ⟨p. 54⟩World? that loved me to the death; and offereth me freely all his benefits, and would bring me to eternal Glory, Are these careless, cold and dull endeavours my best return for all this mercy?
Qu. 2. Can I do no more then this for Christ? For him that did so much for me? that lived so exactly; obeyed so perfectly; walked so inoffensively and meekly; despising all the baits, and honours, and riches of the ⟨p. 54⟩World? that loved me to the death; and offereth me freely all his benenefits, and would bring me to eternal Glory, Are these careless, cold and dull endeavors my best return for all this mercy?
Qu. 3. Can I do no more, when my salvation is the prize? when Heaven or Hell depend much on it? when I know this before-hand, and may see in the glass of the holy Scriptures, what is prepared for the diligent and the negligent, and what work there is and will be for ever in Heaven and Hell on these accounts? Could I not do more, if my house were on fire, or my estate, or life, or friend in danger, then I do for my salvation?