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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.
The ordinary Method for the handling of this Subject of Judgment should be this. 1st. To show you what Judgment is in the General, and what it doth contain: and that is, 1. The Persons. 2. The Cause. 3. The Actions. 1. The Parties are, (1.) The Accuser. (2.) The Defendant. (3.) Sometime Assistants. (4.) The Judg. 2. The Cause contains, (1.) The Accusation. (2.) The Defence. (3.) With the Evidence of both. (4.) And the Merit. The Merit of the Cause is as it agreeth with the Law and Equity. 3. The judicial Actions are, I. Introductory, 1. Citation. 2. Compulsion, if need be. 3. Appearance of the Accused. II. Of the Essence of Judgment, 1. Debate by, (1.) The Accuser. (2.) Defendant, called the Disceptation of the Cause. 2. By the Judg. 1. Exploration. 2. Sentence. 3. To see to the Execution: But because this Method is less suitable to your Capacities, and hath something humane, I will reduce all to these following Heads.
The ordinary Method for the handling of this Subject of Judgment should be this. 1st. To shew you what Judgment is in the General, and what it doth contain: and that is, 1. The Persons. 2. The Cause. 3. The Actions. 1. The Parties are, (1.) The Accuser. (2.) The Defendant. (3.) Sometime Assistants. (4.) The Judg. 2. The Cause contains, (1.) The Accusation. (2.) The Defence. (3.) With the Evidence of both. (4.) And the Merit. The Merit of the Cause is as it agreeth with the Law and Equity. 3. The judicial Actions are, I. Introductory, 1. Citation. 2. Compulsion, if need be. 3. Appearance of the Accused. II. Of the Essence of Judgment, 1. Debate by, (1.) The Accuser. (2.) Defendant, called the Disceptation of the Cause. 2. By the Judg. 1. Exploration. 2. Sentence. 3. To see to the Execution: But because this Method is less sutable to your Capacities, and hath something humane, I will reduce all to these following Heads.
1. I will show what Judgment is.