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A treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at KidderminsterA treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at Kederminster
London: printed by Robert White for Nevil Simmons, 1675
Treatise › Chapter 50: A Renowned and Perpetuated Name to be denied.
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.
7. And I beseech you consider what a fearful thing it is to die in contrived beloved sin! when men have none but a death-bed Repentance, we have much cause to fear, lest it be but fear that is the life of their Repentance: But when they have not this much, but are desirous ⟨p. 328⟩to leave the Monuments of their vice to all Generations, from whence then shall we fetch our hopes of their forgiveness? And O what a power hath Pride in that soul, where the thoughts of Death it self will give no stop to it, but still they are desirous that Pride may over-live them! One would think that the serious thoughts of a grave, much more of our passage into another world, should level all such thoughts of a surviving honour, even in an unsanctified soul! But I much fear lest it be infidelity it self that is the root of all; and that men do not soundly believe an everlasting life with •d, which makes them desire to have somewhat like […] Immortality here on earth.
7. And I beseech you consider what a fearful thing it is to die in contrived beloved sin! when men have none but a death-bed Repentance, we have much cause to fear, lest it be but fear that is the life of their Repentance: But when they have not this much, but are desirous ⟨p. 328⟩to leave the Monuments of their vice to all Generations, from whence then shall we fetch our hopes of their forgiveness? And O what a power hath Pride in that soul, where the thoughts of Death it self will give no stop to it, but still they are desirous that Pride may over-live them! One would think that the serious thoughts of a grave, much more of our passage into another world, should level all such thoughts of a surviving honour, even in an unsanctified soul! But I much fear lest it be infidelity it self that is the root of all; and that men do not soundly believe an everlasting life with •d, which makes them desire to have somewhat like 〈…〉 Immortality here on earth.