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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 eleventh Direction. As you will certainly renew your failings in this life, so be sure that you daily renew your Repentance, and fly daily to Christ for a renewed pardon, that no sin may leave its sting in your souls. It is not your first pardon that will serve the turn for your latter sins. Not that you must Purpose to sin, and ⟨p. 279⟩Purpose to repent when you have done as a Remedy: for that is an hypocritical and wicked purpose of repenting, which is made a means to maintain us in our sins: But sin must be avoided as far as we can; and Repentance and Faith in the blood of Christ must remedy that which we could not avoid. The righteousness of pardon in Christs▪blood, is useful to us only so far as we are sinners; and cometh in where our Imperfect Inherent Righteousness doth come short; but must not be purposely chosen before innocency: I mean, we must rather choose as far as we can, to obey and be innocent, than to sin and be pardoned, if we were sure of pardon.
THE twelfth Direction. In this vigilant, obedient, penitent course, with confidence upon God as a Father, Rest upon the Promise of Acceptance and Remission through the Merits and Intercession of him that Redeemed you: Look up in hope to the Glory that is before you, and believe that God will make good his Word, and the patient expectation of the righteous shall not be in vain: Cheerfully hold on in the work that you have begun: and as you serve a better master than you did before your change, so serve him with more willingness, gladness and delight. Do not entertain hard Thoughts of him or of ⟨p. 281⟩