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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. And who gave you these hopes? Is it God on whom you pretend to trust? or the Devil that doth deceive you? Certainly not God; For he hath told you over and over, that he will save none but the sanctified, Acts 26. 18. and that except a man be born again, even of the Spirit as well as of water, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, John 3. 3, 5. and that without holiness none shall see the Lord, Heb. 12. 14. And is it God that persuadeth you that his Word is false? Doubtless it is the Devil. When God had told Adam and Eve, [That in the day that they did eat the forbidden fruit, they should die the death] was it not the Serpent that gave them hopes of living, and told them that they should not die? If you be at that pass that you will take on you to trust in God, and yet will not believe him, but your trust is but trusting that God is a liar, you are as sottish in your presumption, as Heathens are in their Infidelity: For who is worse? he that believeth that there is no God (as Atheists do) or he that believeth that God is a Liar, which is to be no God and worse?
Answ. And who gave you these hopes? Is it God on whom you pretend to trust? or the Devil that doth deceive you? Certainly not God; For he hath told you over and over, that he will save none but the sanctified, Acts 26. 18. and that except a man be born again, even of the Spirit as well as of water, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, John 3. 3, 5. and that without holiness none shall see the Lord, Heb. 12. 14. And is it God that perswadeth you that his Word is false? Doubtless it is the Devil. When God had told Adam and Eve, [That in the day that they did eat the forbidden fruit, they should die the death] was it not the Serpent that gave them hopes of living, and told them that they should not die? If you be at that pass that you will take on you to trust in God, and yet will not believe him, but your trust is but trusting that God is a lyar, you are as sottish in your presumption, as Heathens are in their Infidelity: For who is worse? he that believeth that there is no God (as Atheists do) or he that believeth that God is a Lyar, which is to be no God and worse?