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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.
ANSWER.
Here is sufficient matter for Humiliation: but the Doubting ariseth merely from Ignorance: The day of Grace may in two respects be said to be over: The first (and most properly so called) is, When God will not Accept of a sinner, though he should Repent and Return. This is never in this life for certain. And he that imagineth any such thing, as that it is too late while his soul is in his body, to Repent and Accept of Christ and Mercy, is merely ignorant of the Tenor and sense of the Gospel: For the New Law of Grace doth limit no time on earth for Gods Accepting of a Returning sinner. True Faith and Repentance do as surely save at the last hour of the day, as at the first. God hath said, that whosoever Believeth in Christ, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. He hath no where excepted late Believers or Repenters: Show any such Exception if you can.
HEre is sufficient matter for Humiliation: but the Doubting ariseth meerly from Ignorance: The day of Grace may in two respects be said to be over: The first (and most properly so called) is, When God will not Accept of a sinner, though he should Repent and Return. This is never in this life for certain. And he that imagineth any such thing, as that it is too late while his soul is in his body, to Repent and Accept of Christ and Mercy, is meerly ignorant of the Tenour and sense of the Gospel: For the New Law of Grace doth limit no time on earth for Gods Accepting of a Returning sinner. True Faith and Repentance do as surely save at the last hour of the day, as at the first. God hath said, that whosoever Believeth in Christ, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. He hath no where excepted late Believers or Repenters: Shew any such Exception if you can.