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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.
3. Have you ignorant or ungodly neighbours, whose misery calls for your compassion, and relief? Speak to them and help them with prudent diligence. Lose not your opportunities: Stay not till Death hath stopped your mouths, or stopped their ears. Stay not till they are out of hearing, and taken from your converse. Stay not till they are in Hell, before you warn them of it, or till Heaven be lost, before you have seriously called to them to remember it. Go to their houses: take all opportunities: stoop ⟨p. 29⟩to their infirmities: bear with unthankful frowardness: It is for mens salvation. Remember there is no place for your instructions or exhortations in the Grave or Hell. Your dust cannot speak, and their dust cannot hear: Up therefore and be doing with all your might.
3. Have you ignorant or ungodly neighbors, whose misery calls for your compassion, and relief? Speak to them and help them with prudent diligence. Lose not your opportunities: Stay not till Death hath stopt your mouths, or stopt their ears. Stay not till they are out of hearing, and taken from your converse. Stay not till they are in Hell, before you warn them of it, or till Heaven be lost, before you have seriously called to them to remember it. Go to their houses: take all opportunities: stoop ⟨p. 29⟩to their infirmities: bear with unthankful frowardness: It is for mens salvation. Remember there is no place for your instructions or exhortations in the Grave or Hell. Your dust cannot speak, and their dust cannot hear: Up therefore and be doing with all your might.
4. Hath God intrsusted you with the Riches of this world; with many talents or with few, by which he looketh you should relieve the needy, and especially should promote those works of piety which are the greatest charity? Give (prudently, but willingly and liberally) while you have to give. It is your Gain: The time of market for your souls: and of laying up a treasure in Heaven; and setting your money to the most gainful Usury▪ and of making you friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; & furthering your salvation, by that which hindereth other mens, & occasioneth their perdition. [As you have opportunity, do good to all men, but especially to them of the household of faith]