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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.
4. If God will be the Judg, then none can expect •y any Shifts or Indirect Means to escape at that Day. For how should it be?
1. It is not possible that any should keep out of Sight, or hide their Sin and the Evil of their Actions, and so delude the Judg: God will not be mocked now, nor deceived then, Gal. 6. 7. they grossly deceive themselves that imagine any such thing: God must be Omniscient and All-seeing, or he cannot be God. Should you •ide your Cause from Men and from Devils, and be ignorant of it your selves, yet cannot you hide it from God. Never did there a Thought pass thy Heart, or a Word pass thy Mouth, which God was not acquainted with: and as he knows them, so doth he observe them. He •s not as imperfect Man, taken up with other Business, so that he cannot mind All. As easy is it with him t• observe every Thought, or Word, or Action of thine, as if he had but that one in the World to observe; and •s easy to observe each particular Sinner, as if he had not another Creature to look after in the World. He is a Fool indeed that thinks now that God takes no notice of him, Ezek. 8. 12. and 9. 9. or that thinketh then to escape in the Crowd: He that found out one Guest that had not on a Wedding-Garment, Mat. 22. 12. will then find out every unholy Soul, and give him so sad a Salutation as shall make him speechless. Joh. 11. 11. For he ⟨p. 8⟩knoweth vain Man; be seeth Wickedness also, and will be not consider it?