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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. It is not possible that any should escape at that Day by any Tricks of Wit and false Reasoning in their own Defence. God knoweth a sound Answer from an unsound, and a Truth from a Lie. Righteousness may be perverted here on Earth, by out-witting the Judg; but so will it not be then. To hope any of this, is to hope that God will not be God. It is in vain then for the unholy Man to say he is holy; or for any Sinner to deny, or excuse, or extenuate his Sin; to bring forth the Counterfeit of any Grace, and plead with God any Shells of hypocritical Performances, and to think to prove a Title to Heaven▪ by any thing short of God's Condition: all these will be vain Attempts.
3. And as impossible will it prove by Fraud or Flattery, by Persuasion or Bribery, or by any other Means, to pervert Justice by turning the Mind of God who is the Judg: Fraud and Flattery, Bribery and Importunity may do much with weak Men, but with God they will do nothing. Were he changeable and partial, he were not God.
3. And as impossible will it prove by Fraud or Flattery, by Perswasion or Bribery, or by any other Means, to pervert Justice by turning the Mind of God who is the Judg: Fraud and Flattery, Bribery and Importunity may do much with weak Men, but with God they will do nothing. Were he changeable and partial, he were not God.
4. If God be Judg, you may see the Cavils of Infidels are foolish, when they ask, How long will God be in trying and judging so many Persons, and taking an Account of so many Words, and Thoughts, and Deeds? Sure it will be a long Time, and a difficult Work. As if God were as Man that knoweth not things till he seek out their Evidence by particular Signs. Let these Foo•s understand, if they have any Understanding, that the infinite God can show to every Man at once, all the Thoughts, and Words, and Actions that ever he hath been guilty of. And in the twink of an Eye, even at one view, can make all the World to see their Ways and their Deservings, causing their Consciences and Memories to present them all before them in such a sort, as shall be equivalent to a verbal Debate,