A27038:389
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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I have now finished the Directions, which I tender to you for your preparation for the Day of the Lord: and withal my whole Discourse on this weighty point. What effect all this shall have upon your hearts, the Lord knows; it is not in my power to determine If you are so far blinded and hardened by sin and Satan, as to make light of all this, or coldly to commend the Doctrine, while you go on to the end in your carnal worldly condition as before; I can say no more, but tell thee again, that Judgement is near, when thou wilt bitterly bewail all this too late. And among all the rest of the Evidence that comes in against thee, this Book ⟨p. 283⟩will be one, which shall testify to thy face before Angels and men, that thou wast told of that Day, and entreated to prepare.
I have now finished the Directions, which I tender to you for your preparation for the Day of the Lord: and withal my whole Discourse on this weighty point. What effect all this shall have upon your hearts, the Lord knows; it is not in my power to determine If you are so far blinded and hardened by sin and Satan, as to make light of all this, or coldly to commend the Doctrine, while you go on to the end in your carnal worldly condition as before; I can say no more, but tell thee again, that Judgement is ne•r, when thou wilt bitterly bewail all this too late. And among all the rest of the Evidence that comes in against thee, this Book ⟨p. 283⟩will be one, which shall testifie to thy face before Angels and men, that thou wast told of that Day, and intreated to prepare.
But if the Lord shall show thee so much mercy as to open thy eyes, and break in upon thy heart, and by sober Consideration turn it to himself, and cause thee faithfully to take the warning that hath here been given thee, and to obey these Directions, I dare assure thee from the word of the Lord, that this Judgement which will be so dreadful to the ungodly, and the beginning of their endless terror and misery, will be as joyful to thee, and the beginning of thy glory. The Saviour that thou hast believed in and sincerely obeyed, will not condemn thee.