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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.
1. Then, till men do come in and submit to Christ, they lye under the wrath of God for all their sins, as they are against the Covenant of works, or they are liable to the curse of that Covenant. Christ's death hath taken away the curse of the Covenant, not absolutely from any man, but conditionally, which becomes absolute when the condition is performed: the Elect themselves are not by nature under the Covenant of Grace, but remain under the curse of the first Covenant, till they come into Christ.
1. Then, till men do come in and submit to Christ, they lye under the wrath of God for all their sins, as they are against the Covenant of works, or they are lyable to the curse of that Covenant. Christ's death hath taken away the curse of the Covenant, not absolutely from any man, but conditionally, which becomes absolute when the condition is performed: the Elect themselves are not by nature under the Covenant of Grace, but remain under the curse of the first Covenant, till they come into Christ.
2. Whosoever rejecteth or neglecteth this Grace, and so finally breaketh the new Covenant, must also bear the curse or the penalty thereof, besides all the former, which will be a greater curse, even as the blessings of this Covenant are far greater than those of the first. It was a heavy punishment ⟨image 5⟩to be cast out of Paradise from the presence of God, and to be cursed by him and subject to Eternal death, and all creatures below cursed for our sakes, to bear all those curses and Plagues threatened in Deuteronomy 27. ch. 26. verse, Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them: and all the people shall say Amen. See Deut. 29. chap. 20 verse, Heb. 10. Chap. 28. 29. verses, He that despised Moses Law, aid without mercy, &c. Of how much sorer punishment, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the Covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace.