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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.
O that they did but know now how these things will then affect them!
4. Another Witness that will then rise up against them, will be the very Devils that tempted them: They that did purposely draw them to Sin, that they might draw them to Torment for Sin: They can witness that you hearkened to their Temptations, when you would not hearken to God's Exhortations: They can witness that you obeyed them in working Iniquity. But because you may think the Accuser's Testimony is not to be taken, I will not stand on this. Though it is not nothing where God knoweth it to be true.
4. Another Witness that will then rise up against them, will be the very Devils that tempted them: They that did purposely draw them to Sin, that they might draw them to Torment for Sin: They can witness that you hearkned to their Temptations, when you would not hearken to God's Exhortations: They can witness that you obeyed them in working Iniquity. But because you may think the Accuser's Testimony is not to be taken, I will not stand on this. Though it is not nothing where God knoweth it to be true.
5. The very Angels of God also may be Witnesses against the Wicked; therefore are we advised in Scripture not to sin before them, Eccl. 5. 6. 1 Cor. 11. 10. 1 Tim. 5. 21. I charge thee before the Elect Angels, &c. They can testify that they would have been ministering Spirits for their good, when the Wicked rather chose to be Slaves to the Spirit of Maliciousness. The holy Angels of God do many a time stand by you when you are sinning: They see you when you see not them; they are employed by God in some sort for your good, as well as we. And as it is the Grief of Ministers that their Labours succeed not, so may we suppose that according to their State and Nature it is theirs. For they that rejoice in Heaven at the Conversion of one Sinner, may be said to sorrow, or to lose those Joys when you refuse to be converted. These noble Spirits, these holy and glorious Attendants of Christ that shall wait upon him to Judgment, will be Witnesses against rebellious Sinners to their Confusion.