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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.
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.
Nor can any think it unworthy of God to be Mens Accuser by such a Disclosure, it being no Dishonour to the purest Light to reveal a Dunghill, or to the greatest Prince to accuse a Traitor. Nor is it unmeet that God should be both Accuser and Judg, seeing he is both absolute Lord, and perfectly Just, and so far beyond all suspicion of Injustice. His Law also doth virtually accuse, Joh. 5. 45. but of this by it self.
Nor can any think it unworthy of God to be Mens Accuser by such a Disclosure, it being no Dishonour to the purest Light to reveal a Dunghil, or to the greatest Prince to accuse a Traitor. Nor is it unmeet that God should be both Accuser and Judg, seeing he is both absolute Lord, and perfectly Just, and so far beyond all suspition of Injustice. His Law also doth virtually accuse, Joh. 5. 45. but of this by it self.
V. For the fifth Particular, How will the Sinners be called to the Bar?