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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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The Reason why the Judge doth mention our Good works, rather then our Believing, may be because those holy self-denying expressions of Faith and Love to Christ, do contain or certainly imply Faith in them, as the life of the tree is in the fruit: but faith doth contain our works of Obedience but only as their cause. These works also are a part of the personal Righteousness which is to be enquired after, that is, we shall not be judged righteous, merely because we have Believed, but also because we have added to our Faith virtue; and have improved our Talents, and have loved Christ to the hazard of all ⟨p. 187⟩or his sake. For it is not only or principally for the goodness of the work considered in it self, or the good that is done by it to the poor: but it is as these works did express our Faith and Love to Christ, by doing him the most costly and hazardous service; that by Faith we could see Christ in a poor beggar or a prisoner; and could love Christ in These better then our worldly goods or liberties; which we must part with or hazard by the works that are here mentioned.
The Reason why the Judge doth mention our Good works, rather then our Believing, may be because those holy self-denying expressions of Faith and Love to Christ, do contain or certainly imply Faith in them, as the life of the tree is in the fruit: but faith doth contain our works of Obedience but only as their cause. These works also are a part of the personal Righteousness which is to be enquired after, that is, we shall not be judged righteous, meerly because we have Believed, but also because we have added to our Faith vertue; and have improved our Talents, and have loved Christ to the hazard of all ⟨p. 187⟩or his sake. For it is not only or principally for the goodness of the work considered in it self, or the good that is done by it to the poor: but it is as these works did express our Faith and Love to Christ, by doing him the most costly and hazardous service; that by Faith we could see Christ in a poor beggar or a prisoner; and could love Christ in These better then our worldly goods or liberties; which we must part with or hazard by the works that are here mentioned.