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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
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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.
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.
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 shew.
And for other Books, she would meddle with none but the sound and practical, and had no itch after the empty Books, which make ostentation of Novelty, and which Opinionists are now so taken with; nor did she like writing or preaching in envy and strife. And of good Books, she chose to read but few, and those very often over, that all might be well digested. Which is a course (for private Christians) that tends to avoid luxuriancy, and make them sincere and solid, and established.
9. She had the great blessing of a tender conscience. She did not slightly pass over small sins without penitent observation. Her Diary records her trouble, when causelessly she had neglected any Ordinance; or was hindered by Rain or small occasions: or if she had overslept her self, and lost a Morning-exercise in London, or came too late; or if she were distracted in secret duty: And if she mist of a Fast▪ through mis-information and disappointments, and found not her heart duly sensible of the loss, that also she recorded. So did she her stirrings of anger, and her very angry looks, resolving to take more heed against them. Though all ought not to spend so much time in writing down their failings; yet all should watch, and renew repentance.