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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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Well! have you yet taken warning by the Judgements of the Lord? God hath begun to take away the reproach of Holiness, and through his great mercy to us, it is more Honourable in England then formerly it hath been. Is it Honoured by you? Or are you hardened to perdition? Fearful is the case of him whoever he be, that after all the gentle and terrible warnings of the Lord, dare think or speak reproachfully of a Holy life! Yet hear the calls of the Eternal Wisdom, Prov. 1. 20, 21, 22, &c. [How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity, and the scorners delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof.] But mercies and judgements are lost on the hard-hearted, Isa. 26. 10, 11. Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord. When the hand of the Lord is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at his people, and the enemies own fire shall devour them.] And then as they set at nought his counsel, and would none of his reproof, but mocked them that feared God; so will he also laugh at their calamity, and mock when their fear cometh.—For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord,] Prov. 1. 25, 26, 27, 29.
Well! have you yet taken warning by the Judgements of the Lord? God hath begun to take away the reproach of Holiness, and through his great mercy to us, it is more Honourable in England then formerly it hath been. Is it Honoured by you? Or are you hardened to perdition? Fearfull is the case of him whoever he be, that after all the gentle and terrible warnings of the Lord, dare think or speak reproachfully of a Holy life! Yet hear the calls of the Eternal Wisdom, Prov. 1. 20, 21, 22, &c. [How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity, and the scorners delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof.] But mercies and judgements are lost on the hard-hearted, Isa. 26. 10, 11. Let favour be shewn to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord. When the hand of the Lord is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at his people, and the enemies own fire shall devour them.] And then as they set at nought his counsell, and would none of his reproof, but mocked them that feared God; so will he also laugh at their calamity, and mock when their fear cometh.—For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord,]