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A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity…A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity…
A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed.A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed.
London: printed by R.W. for Nev. Simmons, 1660
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. And for the fourth sort, (the Hiders, and the Quakers) I have said enough to them already (in my Book against Infidelity, and those against Popery and Quakers:) but in vain to those that have sinned unto death.
5. It is the fifth sort therefore that I shall chiefly address my speech to; who, I fear, are not the smallest part. It is an astonishing consideration to men that are awake, to observe the unreasonableness and stupidity of the ignorant, careless, sensual part of men; How little they Love or Fear the God, whom their tongues confess; How little they value, ⟨p. 17⟩or mind, or seek the everlasting glory, which they take on them to believe; How little they fear and shun those flames which must feed for ever on the impenitent and unholy; How little they care or labour for their immortal souls, as if they were of the Religion of their beasts: How bitterly many of them hate the holy ways commanded by the Lord: while yet they pretend to be themselves his Servants, and to take the Scriptures to be his word: How sottishly and contemptuously they neglect and slight the Holiness without which there is no salvation; Heb. 12.14. How eagerly they desire and seek the pleasing ⟨p. 18⟩of their flesh, and the matters of this transitory life, while they call them vanity and vexation; How madly they will fall out with their own salvation, and from the errors and sins of hypocrites or others, will pick quarrels against the Doctrine, and Ordinances, and ways of God; as if other mens faults should be exceeded by you, while you pretend to loath them. If it be a sin to crack our faith by some particular error, what is it to dash it all to pieces? If it be odious in your eyes, to deny some particular Ordinance of God, what is it to neglect or profane them all? If it be their sin that quarrel in the way to ⟨p. 19⟩