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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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Quest. 4. Have you been faithful in your preparation, by free confession, true humiliation, strong resolution, hungering and thirsting after Christ, and all this furthered by diligent self-examination? An unprepared soul must blame it self, if it find not the sweetness of the Ordinance. The holy appetite and relish, that is necessary to your Delight, must be stirred up much in your Preparations.
Quest. 4. Have you been faithful in your preparation, by free confession, true humiliation, strong resolution, hungring and thristing after Christ, and all this furthered by diligent self-examination? An unprepared soul must blame it self, if it find not the sweetness of the Ordinance. The holy appetite and relish, that is necessary to your Delight, must be stirred up much in your Preparations.
Quest. 5. Are you careful and conscionable, humble and holy in your lives? If you neglect God in your ordinary conversations, and walk not with him on other days, you are unlike to meet him comfortably here. And if you are slight and careless in your ordinary duties, you will find here that God took notice of it.
Quest. 5. Are you careful and conscionable, humble and holy in your lives? If you neglect God in your ordinary conversations, and walk not with him on other daies, you are unlike to meet him comfortably here. And if you are slight and careless in your ordinary duties, you will find here that God took notice of it.
Quest. 6. Do you faithfully endeavour to exercise Faith, Repentance, Love and all Sacramental Graces in the use of the ordinances? You come not to a mere receiving but to a Work Have your souls been adorned with the wedding garment? and do you come hither for a meeting with the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you see him by faith, and take all that is here Represented to you, as if you had seen the things themselves! Do you remember that your Lord is coming, and do you lift up your heads in the expectation of your Redemption, and do this in remembrance of him till he come? An idle loitering in Gods work is not the way to find the sweetness of it.