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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.
2. The very Circumstances of Time, Place, and the like, may evidence against his Condemnation. The Drunkard shall remember in such an Ale-house, I was so oft drunk, and in such a Tavern I wasted my time. The Adulterer and Fornicator shall remember the very Time, the Place, the Room, the Bed, where they committed Wickedness. The Thief and Deceiver will remember the Time, Place, and the Persons they wronged, ⟨p. 32⟩and the things which they robbed or deceived them of. The Worldling will remember the Business which he preferred before the Service of God; the worldly Matters which had more of his Heart than his Maker and Redeemer had; the Work which he was doing when he should have been praying or reading, or Catechising his Family, or thinking soberly of his latter End. A thousand of these will then come into his Mind, and be as so many Evidences against him to his Condemnation.
3. The very Effects also of Mens Sins will be an Evidence against them. The Wife and Children of a Drunkard are impoverished by his Sin; his Family and the Neighbourhood is disquieted by him. These will be so many Evidences against him. So will the Abuse of his own Reason, the enticing of others to the same Sin, and hardening them by his Example.
3. The very Effects also of Mens Sins will be an Evidence against them. The Wife and Children of a Drunkard are impoverished by his Sin; his Family and the Neighbourhood is disquieted by him. These will be so many Evidences against him. So will the Abuse of his own Reason, the enticing of others to the same Sin, and hardning them by his Example.
One covetous unmerciful Landlord doth keep an hundred, or many hundred Persons or Families in so great Necessities, and Care and Labour, that they are tempted by it to overpass the Service of God, as having scarce time for it, or any Room for it in their troubled Thoughts; all these miserable Families and Persons, and all the Souls that are undone by this Temptation, will be so many Evidences against such Oppressors.