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The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…
The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32 directions : written for the use of a troubled friend / and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Underhil, 1653
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.
Besides, you should consider that the• ⟨p. 399⟩Case is far different from yours. Your disease is pain and trouble, they are stark dead: You have Gods favour and doubt of it: they are his enemies and never suspect it: You want comfort, and they want pardon and life: if your disease should never here be cured, it is but going more sadly to heaven: But if they be not recovered by Regeneration, they must lie for ever in Hell: And should we not then pity them more then you? and study more for them? and preach more for them? and rather forget you in a Sermon then them? should you not wish us so to do? should we more regard the comforting of one, then the saving of an hundred? Nay more, we should not only neglect them but dangerously hurt them, if we should preach too much to the case of troubled souls: For you are not so apt to misapply passages of terror, and to take their portion, as they are apt to apply to themselves such passages for comfort, and take your portion to themselves.
Besides, you should consider that the• ⟨p. 399⟩Case is far different from yours. Your disease is pain and trouble, they are stark dead: You have Gods favour and doubt of it: they are his enemies and never suspect it: You want comfort, and they want pardon and life: if your disease should never here be cured, it is but going more sadly to heaven: But if they be not recovered by Regeneration, they must lie for ever in Hell: And should we not then pitty them more then you? and study more for them? and preach more for them? and rather forget you in a Sermon then them? should you not wish us so to do? should we more regard the comforting of one, then the saving of an hundred? Nay more, we should not onely neglect them but dangerously hurt them, if we should preach too much to the case of troubled souls: For you are not so apt to misapply passages of terror, and to take their portion, as they are apt to apply to themselves such passages for comfort, and take your portion to themselves.