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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Doctrine which I am now to handle to you from the plain words of the Text, is this.
THe Doctrine which I am now to handle to you from the plain words of the Text, is this.
Doct. That those that prefer the Learning of the word of Christ, to guide them by Holiness to Everlasting Happiness, before all the lower matters of this world, are they that choose the Better part, even that which shall never be taken from them.
If now the word of Christ alone would serve your turn, I had done my work: I needed not to go any further: You would be now resolved, that Heaven and Holiness is best, and would set your hearts and lives to seek it; and so it would be your own for ever. But this Text hath long stood in the Gospel, and men have heard and read it often, and yet the most are not persuaded; and therefore I must try to open it a little farther to you, and plead it with you, and work the Reason of it upon your minds.
If now the word of Christ alone would serve your turn, I had done my work: I needed not to go any further: You would be now resolved, that Heaven and Holiness is best, and would set your hearts and lives to seek it; and so it would be your own for ever. But this Text hath long stood in the Gospel, and men have heard and read it often, and yet the most are not perswaded; and therefore I must try to open it a little farther to you, and plead it with you, and work the Reason of it upon your minds.