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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.
So that in sum you see that the Cause of the Day will be to enquire, whether being all known Sinners, we have accepted of Christ upon his Terms, and so have Right in him and his Benefits or not? whether they have forsaken this vain World for him, and loved him so faithfully, that they have manifested it, in parting with these things at his Command? And this is the meaning of Mat. 25. where the Enquiry is made to be, whether they have fed and visited him in his Members or not? that is, whether they have so far loved him as their Redeemer, and God by him, as that they have manifested this to his Members according to Opportunity, though it cost them the Hazard or Loss of all; seeing Danger, and Labour, and Cost are fitter to express Love by than empty Compliments and bare Professions.
So that in sum you see that the Cause of the Day will be to enquire, whether being all known Sinners, we have accepted of Christ upon his Terms, and so have Right in him and his Benefits or not? whether they have forsaken this vain World for him, and loved him so faithfully, that they have manifested it, in parting with these things at his Command? And this is the meaning of Mat. 25. where the Enquiry is made to be, whether they have sed and visited him in his Members or not? that is, whether they have so far loved him as their Redeemer, and God by him, as that they have manifested this to his Members according to Opportunity, though it cost them the Hazard or Loss of all; seeing Danger, and Labour, and Cost are fitter to express Love by than empty Compliments and bare Professions.
Whether it be particularly enquired after, or only taken for granted that Men are Sinners, and have deserved Death according to the Law of Works, and that Christ hath satisfied by his Death, is all one as to the matter in hand, seeing God's Enquiry is but the Discovery and Conviction of us. But the last Question which must decide the Controversy will be, whether we have performed the Condition of the Gospel?