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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.
5. If Jesus Christ be the Judg, then what a Comfort must it needs be to his Members, that he shall be Judg that loved them to the Death, and whom they loved above their Lives, and he who was their Rock of Hope and Strength, and the Desire and Delight of their Souls!
6. And if Jesus Christ must be the Judg, what Confusion will it bring to the Faces of his Enemies, and of all that set light by him in the Day of their Visitation? to see Mercy turned against them, and he that died for them now ready to condemn them, and that Blood and Grace which did aggravate their Sin, to be pleaded against them to the Increase of their Misery: How sad will this be?
7. If the God of Love, and Grace, and Truth, be Judg, then no Man need to fear any Wrong. No Subtlety of the Accuser, nor Darkness of Evidence; no Prejudice or Partiality, or whatsoever else may be imagined, can there appear to the Wrong of your Cause. Get a good Cause and fear nothing: and if your Cause be bad, nothing can deliver you.
III. For the third Point, Who are they that must be judged?