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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.
Answ. What if they threatened you with present Death? Did not God also threaten you with everlasting Death, if you were not ruled by him? And whose threatening should you have chiefly feared? Is Man more ⟨p. 47⟩dreadful than God? Is Death more terrible than Hell? Did not Christ bid you fear not them that can kill the Body, and after that can do no more; but fear him that is able to destroy both Body and Soul in Hell-fire; yea I say unto you, fear him? Mat. 10. 28. Luke 12. 4, 5. and Isa. 51. 7. Fear ye not the Reproach of Men, neither be afraid of their Revilings. For the Moth shall eat them up like a Garment, and the Worm shall eat them like Wool: but my Righteousness shall be for ever, and my Salvation from Generation to Gene•tion. Seeing therefore you have chosen rather to suffer from God for ever for your Sin, than to suffer small Matters for well-doing for a Moment, you must ever bear your own Choice. Christ told you before-and, that if you could not forsake all the World and your own Lives for him, you could not be his Disciples, Mat. 10. 37, 38, 39. And seeing you thought his Terms too hard, and would needs seek you out a better Service, even take what you have chosen and found.
Answ. What if they threatned you with present Death? Did not God also threaten you with everlasting Death, if you were not ruled by him? And whose threatning should you have chiefly feared? Is Man more ⟨p. 47⟩dreadful than God? Is Death more terrible than Hell? Did not Christ bid you fear not them that can kill the Body, and after that can do no more; but fear him that is able to •estroy both Body and Soul in Hell-fire; yea I say unto you, fear him? Mat. 10. 28.