A27061:219
Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…
Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11 / by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. She used good company Practically and profitably, making use of what she heard for her own spiritual advantage. When I understood out of her Diary, that she wrote down some of my familiar discourses, with serious application to her self, it struck exceeding deep to my heart, how much I have sinned all my days, since I undertook the person of a Minister of Christ, by ⟨p. 151⟩the slightness and unprofitableness of my discourse; and how exceeding careful Ministers should be of their words, and how deliberately, wisely and seriously they should speak about the things of God, and how diligently they should take all fit opportunities to that end, when we know not how silent hearers are affected with what we say: For ought we know, there may be some that will write down what we say in their Books, or hearts, or both: And God and conscience write down all.
7. She used good company Practically and profitably, making use of what she heard for her own spiritual advantage. When I understood out of her Diary, that she wrote down some of my familiar discourses, with serious application to her self, it struck exceeding deep to my heart, how much I have sinned all my dayes, since I undertook the person of a Minister of Christ, by ⟨p. 151⟩the slightness and unprofitableness of my discourse; and how exceeding careful Ministers should be of their words, and how deliberately, wisely and seriously they should speak about the things of God, and how diligently they should take all fit opportunities to that end, when we know not how silent hearers are affected with what we say: For ought we know, there may be some that will write down what we say in their Books, or hearts, or both: And God and conscience write down all.
8. In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practise. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to their several uses, as some that were fit subjects for her Meditations: some for encouragement to prayer, and other duties: Promises suited to various conditions and wants, as her papers show.