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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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Quest. 21. Dost thou think in thy Conscience that at the hour •• thy death, or at least at Judgement, thou shalt think thy self that Holiness was unnecessary? Doth not thy heart tell thee that then thou shalt be of another mind? and wish with the deepest desires of thy soul, that thou hadst lived as strictly, and prepared for everlasting life as seriously, and served God as diligently, as ever did any Saint on earth? But alas, those wishes will be then too late. Now is thy day: and now thou takest thy work to be needless: And to see the Necessity when time is gone, will be thy torment, but not thy remedy. Not one in this Congregation, or Town, or Country, not one in England, or in all the world, but shall be forced at last, whether he will or no, to justify the wisdom of the godly, and the worst of you shall then with ten thousand fruitless groans desire, that you had imitated the holyest persons that you knew. Not a tongue then shall say, What needs all this ado for heaven? Not a man there dare call his neighbour Puritan, nor take up a contemptuous jeer, against the diligent servants of the Lord.
Quest. 21. Dost thou think in thy Conscience that at the hour •• thy death, or at least at Judgement, thou shalt think thy self that Holiness was unnecessary? Doth not thy heart tell thee that then thou shalt be of another mind? and wish with the deepest desires of thy soul, that thou hadst lived as strictly, and prepared for everlasting life as seriously, and served God as diligently, as ever did any Saint on earth? But alas, those wishes will be then too late. Now is thy day: and now thou takest thy work to be needless: And to see the Necessity when time is gone, will be thy torment, but not thy remedy. Not one in this Congregation, or Town, or Countrey, not one in England, or in all the world, but shall be forced at last, whether he will or no, to justifie the wisdom of the godly, and the worst of you shall then with ten thousand fruitless groans desire, that you had imitated the holyest persons that you knew. Not a tongue then shall say, What needs all this ado for heaven? Not a man there dare call his neighbour Puritane, nor take up a contemptuous jear, against the diligent servants of the Lord.