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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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II. I Should next show you the Delights of Holiness, from the Helps and Concomitants that promote our pleasure. But because I am afraid of lengthening my discourse too much, I shall only name a few things of many.
II. I Should next shew you the Delights of Holiness, from the Helps and Concomitants that promote our pleasure. But because I am afraid of lengthening my discourse too much, I shall only name a few things of many.
1. God being our God in Covenant, his Love is to the holy soul, as the Sun is to our bodies, to illuminate, warm, revive, and comfort them; and did not sin cause some eclipses, or raise some clouds, or shut the windows, we should rejoice continually, and ⟨p. 311⟩find how sweet a thing it is, being justified by faith, to have peace with God.
1. God being our God in Covenant, his Love is to the holy soul, as the Sun is to our bodies, to illuminate, warm, revive, and comfort them; and did not sin cause some ecclipses, or raise some clouds, or shut the windows, we should rejoyce continually, and ⟨p. 311⟩find how sweet a thing it is, being justified by faith, to have peace with God.
2. We are in Covenant with Jesus Christ, who intercedeth for our peace with God. And the Father always heareth his intercession, John 11. 42. And therefore that measure of comfort which he seeth suitable to our present state, we shall be sure of. Who shall condemn us? when it is Christ that dyed, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us,