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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.
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. ⟨p. 28⟩Sirs, you have all in you naturally a Fear of Spirits and invisible Powers: Fear them aright, lest hearkening to the deceiving Spirits, and refusing the Help of the Angels of God, and wilfully sinning before their Faces, you should cause them at that Day, to the Terror of your Souls, to stand forth as Witnesses against you to your Condemnation.
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 ministring 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 imployed 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.