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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. I know it is false that you say, that the world is the worse for all this preaching and Godliness, because it is against the very office of Christ, and of the Holy Ghost. Christ was a diligent preacher himself, and dare you accuse him for it? He came into the world to bring us the Light of heavenly Truth: and dare you say that it were better be without it. It is the work of the Holy Ghost to illuminate and sanctify men, and do you think that he doth us hurt? Christ dyed to wash and purify by the word and Spirit, the Church which is his Body, that he might present it spotless to the Father, Eph. 5. 26. 27. And darest thou say that Christ came to do us harm? By this thy despising of his benefits, thou showest that thou hast yet no part in him or in his saving benefits, but art in the gall of bitterness and bond of thy iniquities, and thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
3. I know it is false that you say, that the world is the worse for all this preachig and Godliness, because it is against the very office of Christ, and of the Holy Ghost. Christ was a diligent preacher himself, and dare you accuse him for it? He came into the world to bring us the Light of heavenly Truth: and dare you say that it were better be without it. It is the work of the Holy Ghost to illuminate and sanctifie men, and do you think that he doth us hurt? Christ dyed to wash and purifie by the word and Spirit, the Church which is his Body, that he might present it spotless to the Father, Eph. 5. 26. 27. And darest thou say that Christ came to do us harm? By this thy despising of his benefits, thou shewest that thou hast yet no part in him or in his saving benefits, but art in the gall of bitterness and bond of thy iniquities, and thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
4. Moreover you are not to be believed because you speak against the experience of all the Prophets and Apostles of Christ. David had rather be a door keeper in the house of God, then dwell in the tents of wickedness; and judged a day in his Courts to be better then a thousand,