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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 first in Order to be judged are the Saints, Mat. 25. and then with Christ they shall judg the rest of the World, 1 Cor. 6. 2, 3. not in an equal Authority and Commission with Christ, but as the present Approvers of his righteous Judgment. The Princes of the Earth shall stand then before Christ even as the Peasants, and the Honourable as the Base; the Rich and the Poor shall meet together, and the Lord shall judg them all, Prov. 22. 2. No Men shall be excused from standing at that Bar, and giving up their Account, and receiving their Doom. Learned and unlearned, young and old, godly and ungodly, all must stand there. I know some have vainly imagined that the Righteous shall not have any of their Sins mentioned, but their Graces and Duties only; but they consider not that things will not then be transacted by Words as we do now, but by clear Discoveries by the infinite Light; and that if God should not discover to them their Sins, he would not discover the Riches of his Grace in the Pardon of all these Sins: even then they must be humbled in themselves that they may be glorified, and for ever cry, Not unto us Lord, but unto thy Name be the Glory.
IV. For the fourth Particular, Who will be the Accuser?
Answ. 1. Satan is called in Scripture the Accuser of the Prethren, Revel. 12. 10. and we find in Joh▪ 1. and other Places, that now he doth practise it even before God: and therefore we judg it probable that he will do so then. But we would determine of nothing that Scripture hath not clearly determined.