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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.
Can you but now prevail with them, all will be well, and you may meet them joyfully before the Lord.
Can you but now prevail with them, all will be well, and you may meet them •oyfully before the Lord.
3. Another Witness that will testify against the Ungodly at that Day, will be their sinful Companions, those that drew them into Sin, or were drawn by them, or joined with them in it. O little do poor Drunkards think, when they sit merrily in an Ale-house, that one of them must bear witness against another, and condemn one another! If they thought of this, methinks it should make them have less Delight in that Company: those that now join with you in Wickedness, shall then be forced to witness, [I confess, Lord, I did hear him sweat and curse, I heard him deride those that feared the Lord, and make a Jest of a holy Life: I saw him in the Ale-house when he should be hearing the Word of God, or reading, or calling upon God, and preparing for this Day: I joined with him in fleshly Delights, in abusing thy Creature and our own Bodies.] Sinners, look your Companions in the Face the next time you are with them, and remember this that I now say; that those Men shall give in Evidence against you, that now are your Associates in all your Mirth. Little thinketh the Fornicator and lustful Wanton, that their sinful Mates must then bear Witness of that which they thought the Dark had concealed, and tell their Shame before all the World. But this must be the Fruit of Sin. It's meet that they who encouraged one another in Sin, should condemn one another for it. And marvel not at it, for they shall be forced to it whether they will or no; Light will not then be hid: They may think to have some case to their Consciences, by accusing and condemning others. When Adam is questioned for his Sin, he presently accuseth the Woman, Gen. 3. 12. when Judas his Conscience was awakened, he runs to the Pharisees with the Money that drew him to it, and they cast it back in his own Face, See thou to il, what is that to us?