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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 second Evidence will be the Knowledge of the Judg. If the Sinner would not be convinced, yet it is sufficient that the Judg knoweth the Cause; God needeth no farther Witness, he saw thee committing Adultery in ⟨p. 19⟩secret, Lying, Stealing, Forswearing in secret. If thou do not know thine own Heart to be unholy, 'tis enough that God knoweth it. If you have the Face to say, Lord, when did we see thee hungry? &c. Mat. 25. 44. yet God will make good the Charge against thee, and there needeth no more Testimony than his own. Can foolish Sinners think to lie hid or escape at that Day, that will now sin wilfully before their Judg? that know every Day that their Judg is looking on them, while they forget him, and give up themselves to the World, and yet go on even under his Eye, as if to his Face they dared him to punish them?
The second Evidence will be the Knowledg of the Judg. If the Sinner would not be convinced, yet it is sufficient that the Judg knoweth the Cause; God needeth no farther Witness, he saw thee committing Adultery in ⟨p. 19⟩secret, Lying, Stealing, Forswearing in secret. If thou do not know thine own Heart to be unholy, 'tis enough that God knoweth it. If you have the Face to say, Lord, when did we see thee hungry? &c. Mat. 25. 44. yet God will make good the Charge against thee, and there needeth no more Testimony than his own. Can foolish Sinners think to lie hid or escape at that Day, that will now sin wilfully before their Judg? that know every Day that their Judg is looking on them, while they forget him, and give up themselves to the World, and yet go on even under his Eye, as if to his Face they dared him to punish them?
3. The third Evidence will be, the Sinners Confession God will force their own Consciences to witness against them, and their own Tongues to confess the Accusation. If they do at first excuse it, he will leave them speechless, yea and condemning themselves before they have done.