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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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8. They have all the Ordinances suited to their comfort: the Word read, preached and meditated on: the Sacraments and the public praises of God, and Communion of the Saints (of which before.)
8. They have all the Ordinances suited to their comfort: the Word read, preached and meditated on: the Sacraments and the publike praises of God, and Communion of the Saints (of which before.)
9. They have multitudes of Mercies still about them, and every day renewed on them, to feed their comforts.
10. They have a promise that all things shall work together for their good; and so that all their afflictions themselves shall be their commodities, and death it self shall be their gain, Rom. 8. 28. Phil. 1. 21. and all their enemies shall be subdued by Christ the Prince of their salvation.
So that from this much you may see, that for Joy and Pleasure, there is no life that hath the advantages that a holy life hath. As for the ungodly, they are not so; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away,