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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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Did one of you owe ten thousand pounds more then he were worth, or had you committed twenty known felonies or murders, would you think your selves safe, without a pardon? Would you not be looking behind you, and afraid of almost every man you see, lest he came to apprehend you? O what a case is that man in that hath so many thousands sins to answer for? and hath such a load of guilt upon his soul? and so many terrible threatenings of the Law in force against him? Do you not fear every hour, lest death arrest you, and bring you to the prison of the bottomless pit? But the sanctified is delivered from this danger. A thousand sins indeed were against us; but we have a pardon of them all to show. In Christ we have Redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, Col. 1. 14. The law hath nothing now against us: and therefore we are safe.
Did one of you owe ten thousand pounds more then he were worth, or had you committed twenty known selonies or murders, would you think your selves safe, without a pardon? Would you not be looking behind you, and afraid of allmost every man you see, lest he came to apprehend you? O what a case is that man in that hath so many thousands sins to answer for? and hath such a load of guilt upon his soul? and so many terrible threatnings of the Law in force against him? Do you not fear every hour, lest death arrest you, and bring you to the prison of the bottomless pit? But the sanctified is delivered from this danger. A thousand sins indeed were against us; but we have a pardon of them all to shew. In Christ we have Redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, Col. 1. 14. The law hath nothing now against us: and therefore we are safe.
4. Those are safer that are dearly beloved of the Lord, and reconciled to him, and taken for his Children, then those that are his Enemies, and hated by him, and under his displeasure. But most Certainly the former is the state of all the sanctified, and the later is the state of the ungodly.