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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. 9. Have you not troubled your own souls, and muddied your comforts by causeless doubts and ignorant scruples, about the gestures, or manner, or persons that you joined with, or some such circumstances as these? If so, no marvel if you lose the comfort.
Quest. 9. Have you not troubled your own souls, and muddyed your comforts by causeless doubts and ignorant scruples, about the gestures, or manner, or persons that you joyned with, or some such circumstances as these? If so, no marvel if you lose the comfort.
Quest. 10. Or at least, have you not been negligent in the review and after improving of the Ordinances? and have you not thought that all was done when you had received? Any one of these miscarriages may make this pleasant duty bitter, or at least deprive you of the most of the delight. But if your hearts be suited to the work, and you deprive not your selves of the offered consolation, you shall find that God deals bountifully, with you, and will feast you even with Angels food.
Quest. 10. Or at least, have you not been negligent in the review and after improving of the Ordinances? and have you not thought that all was done when you had received? Any one of these miscarriages may make this pleasant duty bitter, or at least deprive you of the most of the delight. But if your hearts be suted to the work, and you deprive not your selves of the offered consolation, you shall find that God deals bountifully, with you, and will feast you even with Angels food.
5. The public worship being all thus sweet, how sweet are the Lords days, these holy seasons that are wholly consecrated to this work? How light is the Christian, that hath this day cast off his worldly cares and business and cogitations, and hath set himself apart for God, as if there were to world to mind? On the week days he doth walk with Goa: But so that his necessary worldly business doth frequently divert and distract his mind. But what a sweet and happy day is this, when he may strip himself of these distractions, as he doth of his work-day courser clothes, and may wholly apply himself to God? As the Bee goes from flower to flower, labouring at all, but with a Pleasant labour, to gather Honey, and prepare for winter; so doth the Christian, especially on the Lords day, employ himself in labour and delight; and the more he laboureth, the more is his delight: From Prayer he goeth to Reading; and to the instructing his family, if he be a superior; or learning if he be an inferior and have helps: From private worship to public; and from public to private again; and gathering Honey (food and sweetness) to his soul from all.