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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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You cannot have two masters, though you may have many instruments and fellow-servants: You cannot acceptably serve God, if you serve Mammon: Every wicked man may do something in Religion, and every good man may do something that is contrary to Religion: A carnal man may do something for God, and for his soul; and a spiritual man ought to do something subordinately for his body, and too often, alas, doth something for it inordinately: But which bears the sway? and which is first sought? and which comes behind, and hath but the leavings of the other?
You cannot have two masters, though you may have many instruments and fellow-servants: You cannot acceptably serve God, if you serve Mammon: Every wicked man may do somthing in Religion, and every good man may do something that is contrary to Religion: A carnal man may do something for God, and for his soul; and a spiritual man ought to do something subordinately for his body, and too often, alas, doth something for it inordinately: But which bears the sway? and which is first sought? and which comes behind, and hath but the leavings of the other?
Be not deceived: God is not mocked: Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap: If you sow to the flesh, of the flesh you shall reap corruption: but if you sow to the spirit, of the spirit you shall reap everlasting life: Gal. 6. 7, 8. Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world (for themselves): for if any man love the world, (with his chiefest Love) the Love of the Father is not in him, 1 John 2. 15. Is it not a wonder that any reasonable man can be such a stranger to himself, as not to know what he lives for, and what hath had his heart, and what hath been the principal business of his life? Some by-matters you may easily forget or over-look: but can you do so by your end, which hath been your chiefest care and business?