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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.
The very Clothing and Ornaments by which proud Persons did manifest their Pride, will be sufficient Evidence against them; as his being clothed with Purple and fine Linen, is mentioned Luke 16. 19.
The very Lands, and Goods, and Houses of Worldlings will be an Evidence against them: Their Gold and Silver, which the Covetous do now prefer before the everlasting Riches with Christ, will be an Evidence against them: James 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. Go to now, ye rich Men, weep and howl for your Miseries that shall come upon you. Your Riches are corrupted, and your Garments Mothtaten; your Gold and your Silver is cankered, and the Rust of them shall be a Witness against you, and shall eat your Flesh as it were Fire; ye have heaped Treasure together for the last Days. Behold, the Hire of the Labourers, which have reaped down your Fields, which is of you kept back by Fraud, crieth; and the Cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the Ears of the Lord of Sabbath. Ye have lived in Pleasure on the Earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your Hearts as in a Day of Slaughter. O that Worldlings would well consider this one Text; and therein observe whether a Life of Earthly Pleasure and fullness of worldly Glory and Gallantry, be as desirable as they imagine, and to what Time and Purpose they now lay up their Treasures; and how they must hear of these things hereafter; and what effect the review of their jovial Days will have upon their miserable condemned Souls.
The very Lands, and Goods, and Houses of Worldlings will be an Evidence against them: Their Gold and Silver, which the Covetous do now prefer before the everlasting Riches with Christ, will be an Evidence against them: James 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. Go to now, ye rich Men, weep and howl for your Miseries that shall come upon you. Your Riches are corrupted, and your Garments Mothtaten; your Gold and your Silver is cankered, and the Rust of them shall be a Witness against you, and shall eat your Flesh as it were Fire; ye have heaped Treasure together for the last Days. Behold, the Hire of the Labourers, which have reaped down your Fields, which is of you kept back by Fraud, crieth; and the Cries of them which have reaped, are entred into the Ears of the Lord of Sabbath. Ye have lived in Pleasure on the Earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your Hearts as in a Day of Slaughter. O that Worldlings would well consider this one Text; and therein observe whether a Life of Earthly Pleasure and fulness of worldly Glory and Gallantry, be as desirable as they imagine, and to what Time and Purpose they now lay up their Treasures; and how they must hear of these things hereafter; and what effect the review of their jovial Days will have upon their miserable condemned Souls.