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Englands warning-piece. To all sleepy secure sinners, Or, The true Christians subjection to Christ…
Englands warning-piece. To all sleepy secure sinners, Or, The true Christians subjection to Christ as their King and Saviour. Plainly and powerfully setting forth to the heart and conscience, of all careless secure sinners, their great folly and madness in refusing to submit to Jesus Christ as he is tendered in the Gospel. : With many cogent arguments and reasons to persuade all persons to come into Christ for salvation, now in the day of their visitation, before the fire of his wrath be kindled upon them, and the gates of Heaven be shut against them, and they perish for ever. : With some rules and directions how we may attain true happiness. / Gathered from the painful labours of Mr. Richard Baxter, being the substance of a sermon ; Licensed and entered according to order.Englands warning-piece. To all sleepy secure sinners, Or, The true Christians subjection to Christ as their King and Saviour. Plainly and powerfully setting forth to the heart and conscience, of all careless secure sinners, their great folly and madness in refusing to submit to Jesus Christ as he is tendered in the Gospel. : With many cogent arguments and reasons to perswade all persons to come into Christ for salvation, now in the day of their visitation, before the fire of his wrath be kindled upon them, and the gates of Heaven be shut against them, and they perish for ever. : With some rules and directions how we may attain true happiness. / Gathered from the painful labours of Mr. Richard Baxter, being the substance of a sermon ; Lycensed and entred according to order.
London: printed for J. Conyers, 1678
The true Christians subjection to Christ, the only way to Salvation.
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.
Secondly, this Dependency on Christ is, when we acknowledge the sufficiency of his satisfaction, and his power, and willingness to save all that receive him in his free universal offer in the Gospel, we do heartily accept him for our only Saviour, and accordingly [renouncing all other] do wait upon him believingly, for the benefits of his Sufferings and Office, and the performance of his •••hful covenant to us, in restoring us to all the •••ings which we lost, and advancing us to a far •ater everlasting glory.
Secondly, this Dependency on Christ is, when we acknowledge the sufficiency of his satisfaction, and his power, and willingness to save all that receive him in his free universal offer in the Gospel, we do heartily accept him for our only Saviour, and accordingly [renouncing all other] do wait upon him beleivingly, for the benefits of his Sufferings and Office, and the performance of his •••hful covenant to us, in restoring us to all the •••ings which we lost, and advancing us to a far •ater everlasting glory.
Thirdly this Affection to Christ is, when in the ⟨image 4⟩knowledge and sense of his love to us both common and especial, and of his own excellency, and the blessedness of enjoying of him and the Father, and life by him; our hearts do choose him and the Father by him as our only happiness, and accordingly love him above all things in the world. These threefold descriptions containeth the sum of the Gospel, so hath it nothing but what is of necessity to sound Christianity.
Thirdly this Affection to Christ is, when in the ⟨image 4⟩