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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.
And here you must know, that it is the Kiss of the ⟨image 7⟩Heart and not of Lips which we must here inquire after: the questions will not be at the great day of Doom, who hath spake Christ fair, or who hath called themselves Christians, or who hath said the Creed or Lord's Prayer oftenest, or cried Lord, Lord, or come to Church, or hath held this opinion, or who that: It would make a mans heart ache to think how Zealous men honour the shadow of Christ, bow at his name, reverence the Image of the Cross he dyed on, and the Relics and names of the Saints that dyed for him, yet do utterly neglect the Lord himself, and resist his spirit, and cannot endure to be governed by him, and hate them that really love him, and yet believe themselves to be real Christians. For God's sake sirs do not delude your immortal Souls, as to think your Baptism and your outward Devotion, and your good meanings as you call them, and your righteous dealing with men will serve the turn to prove you Christians, Alas! this is but with Judas to kiss the mouth of Christ.
And here you must know, that it is the Kiss of the ⟨image 7⟩Heart and not of Lips which we must here inquire after: the questions will not be at the great day of Doom, who hath spake Christ fair, or who hath called themselves Christians, or who hath said the Creed or Lord's Prayer oftnest, or cryed Lord, Lord, or come to Church, or hath held this opinion, or who that: It would make a mans heart ake to think how Zealous men honour the shadow of Christ, bow at his name, reverence the Image of the Cross he dyed on, and the Reliques and names of the Saints that dyed for him, yet do utterly neglect the Lord himself, and resist his spirit, and cannot endure to be governed by him, and hate them that really love him, and yet believe themselves to be real Christians. For God's sake sirs do not delude your immortal Souls, as to think your Baptism and your outward Devotion, and your good meanings as you call them, and your righteous dealing with men will serve the turn to prove you Christians, Alass! this is but with Judas to kiss the mouth of Christ.