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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 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 ⟨p. 265⟩end. When you go to bed, examine your hearts, what you have done that day in preparation for your last Day: And take that time as lost which doth nothing to this end.
THE fourth Direction. Use frequently to think of the Certainty, nearness and dreadfulness of that day, to keep Life in your Affections and Endeavours; lest by Inconsiderateness your souls grow stupid and negligent. Otherwise, because it is out of sight, the heart will be apt to grow hardened and secure. And do not think of it slightly as a common thing, but purposely set your selves to think of it, that it may rouse you up to such Affections and ⟨p. 266⟩Endeavours as in some measure are answerable to the nature of the thing.
THE fourth Direction. Ʋse frequently to think of the Certainty, neerness and dreadfulness of that day, to keep Life in your Affections and Endeavours; lest by Inconsiderateness your souls grow stupid and negligent. Otherwise, because it is out of sight, the heart will be apt to grow hardened and secure. And do not think of it sleightly as a common thing, but purposely set your selves to think of it, that it may rouze you up to such Affections and