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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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And on the contrary, it is as sure an Evidence of your misery, when you savour not the things of the Spirit, Rom. 8. 5, 6, 7. and when it pleaseth you more to be great, then to be good; to be rich, then to be religious and righteous; to serve your lusts, then to serve the Lord: When you set more by the applause of men, then ⟨p. 344⟩by the approbations of God: and had rather be far from God then near him, and be excused from a holy life then used to it, and constant in it: When you take the world and sin for your recreation or delight, and a godly life for a melancholy, wearisome, and unpleasant course: This certainly shows that you have yet the old corrupted nature, and Serpentine enmity against the Spirit and Life of Christ, and are yet in the flesh, and therefore can no more please the Lord, then his holy ways are pleasing unto you, Rom. 8. 6, 7, 8. and it proveth that you are yet in the gall of bitterness, and the bonds of your iniquity, and that your hearts are not right in the sight of God, and that you are the slaves of Satan, whose nature you partake of, by which you are thus alienated from the Lord.
And on the contrary, it is as sure an Evidence of your misery, when you savour not the things of the Spirit, Rom. 8. 5, 6, 7. and when it pleaseth you more to be great, then to be good; to be rich, then to be religious and righteous; to serve your lusts, then to serve the Lord: When you set more by the applause of men, then ⟨p. 344⟩by the approbations of God: and had rather be far from God then near him, and be excused from a holy life then used to it, and constant in it: When you take the world and sin for your recreation or delight, and a godly life for a melancholy, wearisom, and unpleasant course: This certainly shews that you have yet the old corrupted nature, and Serpentine enmity against the Spirit and Life of Christ, and are yet in the flesh, and therefore can no more please the Lord, then his holy wayes are pleasing unto you, Rom. 8. 6, 7, 8