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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.
Answ. Will you not believe till you see or feel? was not Gods word sufficient Evidence? would you have believed one from the dead that had told you he had seen such things? and would you not believe Stephen that saw them? Act. 7. 56. Or Paul that heard and saw them? 2 Cor. 12. 3, 4. Nor Christ that came purposely from heaven to reveal them? why flesh and blood cannot see them. You see not God: will you not therefore Believe that there is a God? indeed, whatever you imagine, if you would not Believe Moses and the Prophets, Christ and his Apostles, neither would you have believed though one had risen from the dead. For Gods word is more credible then a dead mans: and Christ did rise from the dead, to attest it. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet believed. Noah saw no rain when he was preparing the Ark: but because he believed, he made ready and escaped, Heb. 11. 7. when the world that would not Believe, did perish. But seeing Gods word was of no more weight with you, and no knowledge would serve your turn but by seeing and feeling; you shall see and feel everlastingly to your sorrow.
Answ. Will you not believe till you see or feel? was not Gods word sufficient Evidence? would you have beleived one from the dead that had told you he had seen such things? and would you not believe Stephen that saw them? Act. 7. 56. Or Paul that heard and saw them? 2 Cor. 12. 3, 4. Nor Christ that came purposely from heaven to reveal them? why flesh and blood cannot see them. You see not God: will you not therefore Believe that there is a God? indeed, whatever you imagine, if you would not Believe Moses and the Prophets, Christ and his Apostles, neither would you have believed though one had risen from the dead. For Gods word is more credible then a dead mans: and Christ did rise from the dead, to attest it. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet believed. Noah saw no rain when he was preparing the Ark: but because he believed, he made ready and escaped, Heb. 11. 7. when the world that would not Believe, did perish. But seeing Gods word was of no more weight with you, and no knowledge would serve your turn but by seeing and feeling; you shall see and feel everlastingly to your sorrow.