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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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THE first Direction is this, See that your souls be sincerely established in the Belief of this Judgement and Everlasting life: For if you do not soundly believe it, you will not seriously prepare for it. If you have the Judgement and belief of an Infidel, you cannot have the Heart or the Life of a Christian. Unbelief shuts out the most of the world from heaven, see that it do not so by you! If you say, You cannot Believe what you would: I answer, Feed not your unbelief by wilfulness, or unreasonableness; Use Gods means to overcome it, and shut not your eyes against the light, and then try the issue, Heb. 3.12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
THE second Direction. Labour diligently to have a sound understanding of the nature of the Laws and Judgement of God. On what terms it is that he dealeth with mankind: and on what terms he will Judge them to Life or Death: and what the Reward and Punishment is▪ For if you know not the Law by which you must be Judged▪ you cannot know how to prepare for the Judgement. Study the Scripture therefore, and mark who they be that God promiseth to save, and who they be that he threateneth to Condemn. For according to that Word will the Judgement pass.
THE third Direction. See that you take it as the very business of your Lives, to make ready for that day. Understand that you have no other business in this world, but what doth necessarily depend on this. What else have you to do, but to provide for everlasting? and to use means to sustain your own bodies and others, of purpose for this work, till it be happily done? Live therefore as men that make this the main scope and care of their Lives: and let all things else come in but on the by. Remember every morning when you awake, that you must spend that day in preparation for your Account, and that God doth give it you for that