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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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19 Moreover it is Godliness that is the honour of all Societies: Without this their wisdom is mere folly, and their Riches are but the •etters of their slavery, and canker to gnaw them and testify against them, and their greatest victories may be but murders which shall damn them: and their splendour in the world is but the sign of their misery in the eyes of all fore-seeing men: Prov. 14. 34 [Righteousness exalteth a Nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.] What Glory can be equal to the Glory of our interest in God, and of our being his people, and doing his work, and having his presence?
19 Moreover it is Godliness that is the honour of all Societies: Without this their wisdom is meer folly, and their Riches are but the •etters of their slavery, and canker to gnaw them and testifie against them, and their greatest victories may be but murders which shall damn them: and their splendour in the world is but the sign of their misery in the eyes of all fore-seeing men: Prov. 14. 34 [Righteousness exalteth a Nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.] What Glory can be equal to the Glory of our interest in God, and of our being his people, and doing his work, and having his presence?
20. Lastly, How can that be worst on earth, that is so good in Heaven? The perfection of Holiness hereafter, with the Holy Love, and Praises, and Enjoyments of the Saints, will be their Glory. If you think this worst in your Societies on earth, what do you but renounce it? If Heaven be worst for you, come not thither. If the participation of that which is the felicity of the glorified, be not the felicity of all Societies, I desire none of their felicity.