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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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Were it but our Justification from the Accusations of Satan, who would have us Condemned either as sinners in general, or as Impenitent, Unbelieving Rebels, against him that Redeemed us, in special, it would lift up the heads ⟨p. 180⟩of the Saints in that day: After all the fears of our own hearts, and the slanderous Accusations of Satan and the world, That we were either Impenitent Infidels, or Hypocrites, Christ will then Justify us and pronounce us Righteous. So much for the Condition to which they are Judged.
Were it but our Justification from the Accusations of Satan, who would have us Condemned either as sinners in general, or as Impenitent, Unbelieving Rebels, against him that Redeemed us, in special, it would lift up the heads ⟨p. 180⟩of the Saints in that day: After all the fears of our own hearts, and the slanderous Accusations of Satan and the world, That we were either Impenitent Infidels, or Hypocrites, Christ will then Justifie us and pronounce us Righteous. So much for the Condition to which they are Judged.
2. The Reason or Cause of this Justification of the Saints, is given us▪ both 1. In a general denomination, and 2. In a particular Description. 1. In General, it is because they were Righteous, as is evident, Mat. 25.46. The righteous shall go into life Everlasting. And indeed it is the business of every just Judge, to justify the righteous, and condemn the unrighteous. And shall not the Judge of all the earth judge righteously? Gen. 18.25. God makes men Righteous, before he ⟨p. 181⟩Judges them so: and Judgeth them Righteous Because they are so. He that abominateth that man who saith to the Righteous, thou art wicked, or to the wicked, thou art Righteous, who Justifieth the wicked, and Condemneth the Righteous, will certainly never do so himself.