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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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Having fully showed you [What Godliness is] I now beseech thee, Reader, to enquire, Whether this described case be thine? Art thou Devoted to God without reserve, as being not thine own but his? And hast thou devoted all thou hast to him with thy self, to be used according to his Will? Art thou mere subjected to his Authority, and observant of his Laws and Government, then of mans? and can his word do more with thee, t•en the word of any mortal man, or then the violence of thy lusts and passions? Art thou heartily engaged to him as thy felicity, and dost thou give up thy self to him in filial Love, dependence and observance, as to thy dearest friend and Father? Dost thou highlyest esteem him, and resolvedly choose him, and sincerely seek him, preferring nothing in thy Estimation, Choice, Resolution, or Endeavour before him? Try by these and the other particulars in the Description, whether you are Godly or ungodly; and do it faithfully; for the day is at hand, when the ungodly shall not stand in judgement, nor sinners in the Assembly of the just, Psal. 1. 5.
HAving fully shewed you [What Godliness is] I now beseech thee, Reader, to enquire, Whether this described case be thine? Art thou Devoted to God without reserve, as being not thine own but his? And hast thou devoted all thou hast to him with thy self, to be used according to his Will? Art thou mere subjected to his Authority, and observant of his Laws and Government, then of mans? and can his word do more with thee, t•en the word of any mortal man, or then the violence of thy lusts and passions? Art thou heartily engaged to him as thy felicity, and dost thou give up thy self to him in filial Love, dependance and observance, as to thy dearest friend and Father? Dost thou highlyest esteem him, and resolvedly choose him, and sincerely seek him, preferring nothing in thy Estimation, Choice, Resolution, or Endeavour before him? Try by these and the other particulars in the Description, whether you are Godly or ungodly; and do it faithfully; for the day is at hand, when the ungodly shall not stand in judgement, nor sinners in the Assembly of the just, Psal. 1. 5.