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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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3. Holiness will cause the Rulers of the world to Love those that are Holy, and to promote the Communion of Saints, and to be Nursing Fathers to the Church, even that part of the Holy Catholic Church which they are entrusted with; and to protect them from the violence of men: It will keep them from the sins of Jeroboam that corrupted Gods worship, and put forth his hand against the Prophet that spoke against it: Whereby God will be engaged to be their Protector in Peace and War: When Princes and people that fall out with Holiness and take part with the flesh, and set themselves against the servants, the worship, and the ways of Christ, do put themselves from under his protection, and put themselves under the battering and piercing strokes of his displeasure: And woe to him that striveth with his Maker, and that kicks against the pricks of his severity, Isa. 45. 9. Acts 9. 5. & 26. 14. The fatal ruin of the Kingdoms of the world, or at least the final ruin of the persons, is from their enmity and rebellion against the Lord, and because they will not be his Kingdoms, but hate and quarrel with his ways, and persecute his servants: And Godliness preserveth Princes and Magistrates from this sin and ruin.
3. Holiness will cause the Rulers of the world to Love those that are Holy, and to promote the Communion of Saints, and to be Nursing Fathers to the Church, even that part of the Holy Catholick Church which they are entrusted with; and to protect them from the violence of men: It will keep them from the sins of Jeroboam that corrupted Gods worship, and put forth his hand against the Prophet that spoke against it: Whereby God will be engaged to be their Protector in Peace and War: When Princes and people that fall out with Holiness and take part with the flesh, and set themselves against the servants, the worship, and the wayes of Christ, do put themselves from under his protection, and put themselves under the battering and piercing stroakes of his displeasure: And wo to him that striveth with his Maker, and that kicks against the pricks of his severity, Isa. 45. 9. Acts 9. 5