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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 Redemption of Men by the Lord Jesus Christ, will be an Evidence to the exceeding Aggravation of their Sins. You sinned against the Lord that bought you, 2 Pet. 2. 1. When the Feast was prepared, and all things were ready, you made light of it, and found Excuses and would not come, Mat. 22. 4, 5, 6. Luke 14. 17, 18. Must Christ redeem you by so dear a Price from Sin and Misery, and yet will you continue the Servants of Sin, and prefer your Slavery before your Freedom, and choose to be Satan's Drudges, rather than to be the Servants of God? The Sorrows and Sufferings that Christ underwent for you, will then prove the Increase of your own Sorrows. As a neglected Redeemer it is that he will condemn you. And then you would be glad that it were but true Doctrine, that Christ never died for you, that you might not be condemned for refusing a Redeemer, and sinning against him that shed his Blood for you. How deeply will his Wounds then wound your Consciences! You will then remember that to this end he both died, rose and revived, that he might be Lord both of the Dead and the Living: And that he therefore died for ⟨p. 34⟩all, that they which live, should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him that died for them and rose again; Rom. 14. 9. 2 Cor. 5. 14, 15. Mat. 28. 18, 19, 20. 1 Pet. 1. 17, 18. You will then understand that you were not your own, but were bought with a Price; and therefore should have glorified him that bought you with your Bodies and Spirits, because they were his, 1 Cor. 6. 19, 20. This one Aggravation of your Sin will make you doubly and remedilessly miserable, that you trod under foot the Son of God, and counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith you were sanctified, an unholy thing,