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Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners
Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners by Richard Baxter.
London : To be sold by John Rothwell ..., 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. The fourth Evidence will be the witness of others. Oh how many thousand witnesses might there be produced, were there need to convince the guilty soul at that day!
1. All the Ministers of Christ that ever preached to them, or warned them, will be sufficient witnesses against them: we must needs testify that we preached to them the truth of the Gospel, and they would not believe it. We preached to them the goodness of God, yet they set not their hearts upon him: we showed them their sin and they were not humbled. We told them of the danger of an unregenerate state, and they did not regard us: we acquainted them with the Absolute Necessity of holiness, but they made light of all: We let them know the deceitfulness of their hearts, and the need of a close and faithful examination, but they would not bestow an hour in such a work; nor scarce once be afraid of being mistaken and miscarrying. We let them know the vanity of this world, and yet they would not forsake it, no not for Christ and the hopes ⟨p. 183⟩of glory; We told them of the everlasting felicity they might attain, but they would not set themselves to seek it.
1. All the Ministers of Christ that ever preached to them, or warned them, will be sufficient witnesses against them: we must needs testifie that we preached to them the truth of the Gospel, and they would not believe it. We preached to them the goodness of God, yet they set not their hearts upon him: we shewed them their sin and they were not humbled. We told them of the danger of an unregenerate state, and they did not regard us: we acquainted them with the Absolute Necessity of holiness, but they made light of all: We let them know the deceitfulness of their hearts, and the need of a close and faithful examination, but they would not bestow an hour in such a work; nor scarce once be afraid of being mistaken and miscarrying. We let them know the vanity of this world, and yet they would not forsake it, no not for Christ and the hopes ⟨p. 183⟩of glory; We told them of the everlasting felicity they might attain, but they would not set themselves to seek it.