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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.
Dir. 4. If it may be, converse with ⟨p. 154⟩lively, active, stirring Christians; but especially have one such for a bosom Friend, that will warm you when you are cold, and help to awake you when you drop a sleep, and will not comply with you in a declining, lazy, and unprofitable course, Eccles. 4. 9, 10, 11. Two are better then one, because they have a good reward for their labour: For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat; but how can one alone be warm? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not easily broken.
Dir. 4. If it may be, converse with ⟨p. 154⟩lively, active, stirring Christians; but especially have one such for a bosome Friend, that will warm you when you are cold, and help to awake you when you drop a sleep, and will not comply with you in a declining, lazie, and unprofitable course, Eccles. 4. 9, 10, 11. Two are better then one, because they have a good reward for their labour: For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat; but how can one alone be warm? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not easily broken.
Dir. 5. Put not away from you the day of death. Look not for long life. It is the life to come that must be the life of all your duties here: and distant things do lose their force. Set death, and judgment, ⟨p. 155⟩and eternal life continually as near at hand; live in a watchful expectation of your change, do all as dying men, and as passing to receive the recompense of endless joy or woe; and this will quicken you. To this end, go often to the house of mourning, and be not unseasonably or immoderately in the House of Mirth. When you observe what is the end of all men, the heart will be made better by it,