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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.
and that I may also have easier Access to your Hearts, and have a fuller Stroke at them, and with less Resistance. If I came to tell you of any thing not Common, I know not how far I might expect Belief from you. You might say, These things are uncertain to us, or all Men are not of this Mind. But when every Hearer confesseth the Truth of my Doctrine, and no Man can deny it, without denying Christianity it self; I hope I may expect that your Hearts should the sooner receive the Impression of this Doctrine, and the sooner yield to the Duties it directs you to, and the easier ⟨p. 3⟩let go the Sins which from so certain a Truth shall be discovered.
and that I may also have easier Access to your Hearts, and have a suller Stroak at them, and with less Resistance. If I came to tell you of any thing not Common, I know not how far I might expect Belief from you. You might say, These things are uncertain to us, or all Men are not of this Mind. But when every Hearer confesseth the Truth of my Doctrine, and no Man can deny it, without denying Christianity it self; I hope I may expect that your Hearts should the sooner receive the Impression of this Doctrine, and the sooner yield to the Duties it directs you to, and the easier ⟨p. 3⟩let go the Sins which from so certain a Truth shall be discovered.
The Words of my Text, are the Reason which the Apostle giveth both of his persuading other Men to the Fear of God, and his Care to approve to God his own Heart and Life. They contain the Assertion and Description of the Great Judgment, and one Use which he makes of it. It assureth us that judged we must be, and who must be so judged, and by whom, and about what, and on what Terms, and to what End.
The Words of my Text, are the Reason which the Apostle giveth both of his perswading other Men to the Fear of God, and his Care to approve to God his own Heart and Life. They contain the Assertion and Description of the Great Judgment, and one Use which he makes of it. It assureth us that judged we must be, and who must be so judged, and by whom, and about what, and on what Terms, and to what End.