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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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Answ. 1. What do Temptations prevail with you to do? Is it not to think well of sinful pleasures, and to think more hardly of the ways of God? Is it not to like a worldly fleshly life better then a Holy life? If not, how can you follow those temptations? And if it be so, then they draw you for that time to think that fleshly pleasures are the better part.
Answ. 1. What do Temptations prevail with you to do? Is it not to think well of sinful pleasures, and to think more hardly of the wayes of God? Is it not to like a worldly fleshly life better then a Holy life? If not, how can you follow those temptations? And if it be so, then they draw you for that time to think that fleshly pleasures are the better part.
2. But if indeed it be as you say, you are the most unexcuseable miscreants in the world. What! do you know that God is best for you, and yet will you fly from him? Do you know that heaven is the only happiness, and yet will you seek this world before it? Do you know what is Best for you, and will not h••• it? and what is worst, and yet will keep it? Will you go to […] and know whither you are going? And will you run from •ven and damn your selves, and know that you do so? Yea; […] ⟨p. 113⟩that while we day by day entreat you to the contrary? If this be the case of any one of you, the God of Justice shall teach you to know what you are doing, by his everlasting vengeance: Heaven and earth shall be witness against you; your own Consciences, and such Confessions of your own shall bear witness against you, that you justly perish, and are damned, because you would be damned, and are shut out of Heaven, because you would not be persuaded to come thither.
2. But if indeed it be as you say, you are the most unexcuseable miscreants in the world. What! do you know that God is best for you, and yet will you fly from him? Do you know that heaven is the only happiness, and yet will you seek this world before it? Do you know what is Best for you, and will not h it? and what is worst, and yet will keep it? Will you go to and know whither you are going? And will you run from ven and damn your selves, and know that you do so? Yea;