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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 10
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And for this, we must go strait to the word of God for our light, it being impossible for any man to have any particular knowledge of it, if Christ had not there revealed it unto us. Indeed almost all the world do acknowledge a life after this, where it shall go well with the good, and ill with the bad. But who shall be then accounted Righteous, and who Unrighteous, and on what terms and grounds, by whom they shall be Judged, and to what Condition, they know not.
And for this, we must go strait to the word of God for our light, it being impossible for any man to have any particular knowledge of it, if Christ had not there revealed it unto us. Indeed almost all the world do acknowledge a life after this, where it shall go well with the good, and ill with the bad. But who shall be then accounted Righteous, and who Ʋnrighteous, and on what terms and grounds, by whom they shall be Judged, and to what Condition, they know not.
The Sentence in Judgement ⟨p. 171⟩will be, 1. Either on those that never had means to know Christ. 2. Or on those that had.
1. For the former, as it less concerneth us to enquire of their case, so is it more obscurely revealed to us in the Scripture. •t is certain that they shall be Judged according to their Use of the means which they had, Rom. 2.11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. and the Talents which they received, Mat. 25. But that it ever falleth out that he that hath but the One Talent of natural helps doth improve it to salvation, or that ever they who knew not Christ, are Justified and saved without that knowledge (being at age and use of reason) I find not in the Scriptures. I find indeed, that [As many as have sinned without Law, shall also perish without Law: and as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be Judged