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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Are the thoughts of God, of Christ, of Heaven sweet to you? If they be, me thinks the Ordinances should be sweet! If they be not, its no wonder that you set light by Sacraments, if you can set light by Christ and heaven it self.
1. Are the thoughts of God, of Christ, of Heaven sweet to you? If they be, me thinks the Ordinances should be sweet! If they be not, its no wonder that you sét light by Sacraments, if you can set light by Christ and heaven it self.
Quest. 2. Is not sin grown sweet to you? If it be, the ordinances will not be sweet: no nor unless your sins grow bitter.
Quest. 3. Doth not the world grow sweet to you, and your condition or expectations, and your thriving state, more pleasant to you then heretofore? If so, no wonder if Sacraments and all spiritual things, do lose their sweetness.
Quest. 3. Doth not the world grow sweet to you, and your condition or expectations, and your thriving state, more plesant to you then heretofore? If so, no wonder if Sacraments and all spiritual things, do lose their sweetness.