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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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Besides all this that hath been said, let me briefly have some general aggravations, of the Delights of Holiness. And compare it as we go with the Delights of the ungodly.
BEsides all this that hath been said, let me briefly have some general aggravations, of the Delights of Holiness. And compare it as we go with the Delights of the ungodly.
1. The Delights of Holiness are the most Great, and Glorious, and Sublime delights. They are fetched from the most Great and Glorious things. It is God, and his Grace, and everlasting glory that feed our pleasures. Whereas the Delights of sensual men, are fed with trifles: What do they rejoice in but the fooleries of sin, and the filthiness of their own transgressions! What is it that contenteth them, but a dream of honour, or the good will and word of mortal men, or a brutish sportfulness, or the pleasing of the itch of lust, or the provision that they have laid up for the flesh? ⟨p. 315⟩The treasures of a Kingdom excel not the treasure of a child's pin-box the thousandth part so much as Heaven excels the treasure of the ungodly. Judge therefore by the matter that feeds their pleasure, which of the two is the more pleasant life: to sport in their own shame, and laugh at the brink of misery, with the ungodly; or to delight our selves in the Love of God, and rejoice in the assured hope of Glory with the true believer?
1. The Delights of Holiness are the most Great, and Glorious, and Sublime delights. They are fetcht from the most Great and Glorious things. It is God, and his Grace, and everlasting glory that feed our pleasures. Whereas the Delights of sensual men, are fed with trifles: What do they rejoyce in but the fooleries of sin, and the filthyness of their own transgressions! What is it that contenteth them, but a dream of honour, or the good will and word of mortal men, or a brutish sportfulnesse, or the pleasing of the itch of lust, or the provision that they have laid up for the flesh?