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Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day…
Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day of judgment, from 2 Cor. 5. 10, 2. The danger of slighting Christ and his Gospel, from Matth. 22. 5 / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Jonas Luntley, 1696
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.
Poor Sinners, I beseech you in the Fear of God, the next time you have any such Motions from the Spirit of God, to repent, and believe, and break off your Sins, and the Occasions of them: consider then what a Mercy is set before you, and how it will confound you at the Day of Judgment, to have all these Motions brought in against you, and that the Spirit of Grace it self should be your Condemner! Alas, that Men should choose their own Destruction, and wilfully choose it! and that the Foreknowledge of these things should not move them to relent.
Poor Sinners, I beseech you in the Fear of God, the next time you have any such Motions from the Spirit of God, to repent, and believe, and break off your Sins, and the Occasions of them: consider then what a Mercy is set before you, and how it will confound you at the Day of Judgment, to have all these Motions brought in against you, and that the Spirit of Grace it self should be your Condemner! Alas, that Men should choose their own Destruction, and wilfully choose it! and that the Foreknowledg of these things should not move them to relent.
So much concerning the Witness that will be brought in against the Sinner.
5. The fifth Evidence that will be given against the Sinner will be, The Instruments and Effects. You know among Men, if a Man be found murdered by the highway, and you are found standing by with a bloody Sword in your Hand; especially if there were a former Dissension between you, it will be an Evidence that will prove a strong Presumption that you were the Murderer; but if the Fact be certain by other Evidence, then many such things may be brought for aggravation of the Fault.