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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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4. And therefore as to the continuance, Mary's being a more eligible employment, and about an everlasting treasure, shall not be taken from her, when the fruit of Martha's employment will quickly have an end.
4. And therefore as to the continuance, Mary's being a more eligible imployment, and about an everlasting treasure, shall not be taken from her, when the fruit of Martha's imployment will quickly have an end.
Yet in these different cases, each one had her choice: Had Martha chosen better, she had had better. And the choice much proceeded from the judgement and disposition: Had she judged ⟨p. 8⟩better, and been inclined better, Martha would have chos•• better.
Before we come to the principal Doctrines, we may profitably note these Observations by the way.
1. Note here that [the nearest Natural Relations (as Brothers and Sisters, yea, Parents and Children) are not always of one mind or way in the matters of their salvation.] Greater difference may be between them, then this between Martha and Mary in the Text. They may rise up against each other, and seek each others lives, as Christ foretold,