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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.
3. Why this kissing the Son, [that is loving, depending on, and submitting to him] is the only way to escape these curses: I answer.
First the proper Reason that can be given is; The will of the great Law giver, who hath absolute power over us, might dispose of us as he pleases, and make us such Laws and conditions as seem best to his wisdom, upon which our justification and salvation should depend: he bath resolved that this shall be the only condition and way: And that as no man shall be justified by a mere Christ, or his death abstracted from Faith [that is of Age or Reason] so this Faith shall be the condition upon which they shall be justified: or, as a Christ neglected ⟨image 5⟩shall save no man, so the accepting or receiving of him, shall justify and save them, as the condition of the Covenant performed, under which notion it is, that faith justifieth. The Reasons from the former are,
First the proper Reason that can be given is; The will of the great Law giver, who hath absolute power over us, might dispose of us as he pleases, and make us such Laws and conditions as seem best to his wisdome, upon which our justification and salvation should depend: he bath resolved that this shall be the only condition and way: And that as no man shall be justified by a meer Christ, or his death abstracted from Faith [that is of Age or Reason] so this Faith shall be the condition upon which they shall be justified: or, as a Christ neglected ⟨image 5⟩shall save no man, so the accepting or receiving of him, shall justify and save them, as the condition of the Covenant performed, under which notion it is, that faith justifieth. The Reasons from the former are,