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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. Did you spend no time in Recreation, nor Idleness, nor vain talking? why might not that at least have been spent about heavenly things?
3. Could you have taken no time from your rest, or eating, or at other Intermissions? Man's Body will not endure so great Labours as have no Intermission. And why then might not Godliness have been your Ease and Recreation?
4. Or might you not have minded these things ever when you were about your Labour, if you had but a Heart to them?
5. At least you might have spent the Lord's own Day in hearing, reading and pondering of these Matters, when you were forced to forbear your worldly Labours, even by the wholesome Law of the Land. These therefore are all but vain Excuses; and God will shortly make thee speak out and plainly confess, it w• not so much for want of Time or Helps, or warning as for want of a Heart to use them well. I should have found some time, though it had been when I should have slept, if my Heart had been but set upon it.
5. At least you might have spent the Lord's own Day in hearing, reading and pondering of these Matters, when you were forced to forbear your worldly Labours, even by the wholesom Law of the Land. These therefore are all but vain Excuses; and God will shortly make thee speak out and plainly confess, it w not so much for want of Time or Helps, or warning as for want of a Heart to use them well. I should have found some time, though it had been when I should have slept, if my Heart had been but set upon it.