A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Name: A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
Author: Richard Baxter

A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662

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4. But if all this will not serve the turn, thou shalt be Judge thy self: but it shall be when thou art more capable of judging. If God by Grace shall Change thy heart, I will stand to thy Judgement: If he do not, when thy graceless guilty soul shall pass out of thy pampered dirty flesh, and appear before the dreadful God, I will then leave the case to thy Conscience to judge of. To all Eternity it shall be partly left to the judgement of thy Conscience, whether sin or Holiness be better? and whether Saints or careless sinners were the wiser? and whether it had not been be ter for thee to have spent that life in preparing for thy Endless life, which thou spentst in slighting it, and caring for the world and flesh. Then thou shalt be Judge thy self of these matters: but under a more severe and righteous judge: And so as shall make thy tearing heart to wish with many a thousand groans, that thou hadst judged wiselier in time.

4. But if all this will not serve the turn, thou shalt be Judge thy self: but it shall be when thou art more capable of judging. If God by Grace shall Change thy heart, I will stand to thy Judgement: If he do not, when thy graceless guilty soul shall pass out of thy pampered dirty flesh, and appear before the dreadful God, I will then leave the case to thy Conscience to judge of. To all Eternity it shall be partly left to the judgement of thy Conscience, whether sin or Holiness be better? and whether Saints or careless sinners were the wiser? and whether it had not been be ter sor thee to have spent that life in preparing for thy Endless life, which thou spentst in slighting it, and caring for the world and flesh. Then thou shalt be Judge thy self of these matters: but under a more severe and righteous judge: And so as shall make thy tearing heart to wish with many a thousand groans, that thou hadst judged wiselier in time.

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But because that Judgement will be to desperation, and too late for hope or any help, let Conscience speak when thou lyest sick, and seest that thou art a dying man! Then judge thy self whether a Holy or a worldly life be better? and whether it had not been thy wiser course to have sowed to the spirit, that so thou mayest reap everlasting life, then to have sowed to the flesh, from which thou now lookst to reap no better then corruption. Be not deceived: God is not mocked: whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap,

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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

CHAP. III. Full proof (in twenty Queries) from Reason it self that there is a Life to come, and Holiness is the way to it; and the Better Part: And that the Gospel is the certain Word of God (in fifteen Queries more) with Answers to the Infidels Objections.

CHAP. III. Full proof (in twentie Queries) from Reason it self that there is a Life to come, and Holiness is the way to it; and the Better Part: And that the Gospel is the certain Word of God (in fifteen Queries more) with Answers to the Infidels Objections.

Reformers309

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CHAP. III. Full proof (in twenty Queries) from Reason it self that there is a Life to come, and Holiness is the way to it; and the Better Part: And that the Gospel is the certain Word of God (in fifteen Queries more) with Answers to the Infidels Objections.

CHAP. III. Full proof (in twentie Queries) from Reason it self that there is a Life to come, and Holiness is the way to it; and the Better Part: And that the Gospel is the certain Word of God (in fifteen Queries more) with Answers to the Infidels Objections.