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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.
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.
2. Conscience will be an Accuser, though especially of the Wicked, yet in some sense of the Righteous, for it will tell the Truth to all; and therefore so far as Men are faulty, it will tell them of their Faults. The Wicked it will accuse of unpardoned Sin, and of Sin unrepented of; the Godly only of Sin repented of and ⟨p. 11⟩pardoned. It will be a Glass wherein every Man: may see the Face of his Heart and former Life, Rom. 1. 15.
2. Conscience will be an Accuser, though especially of the Wicked, yet in some sense of the Righte•us, for it will tell the Truth to all; and therefore so far as Men are faulty, it will tell them of their Faults. The Wicked it will accuse of unpardoned Sin, and of Sin unrepented of; the Godly only of Sin repented of and ⟨p. 11⟩pardoned. It will be a Glass wherein every Man: may see the Face of his Heart and former Life, Rom. 1. 15.
3. The Judg himself will be the principal Accuser; for it is he that is wronged, and he that prosecutes the Cause, and will do Justice on the Wicked. God judgeth even the Righteous themselves to be Sinners, or else they could not be pardoned Sinners. But he judgeth the Wicked to be impenitent, unbelieving, unconverted Sinners. Remember what I said before, that it is not a verbal Accusation, but an opening of the Truth of the Cause to the view of our selves and others, that God will then perform.