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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.
Dost thou take him for thy only Saviour, and truly believe this history of his Life and Passion the truth of his Divine and humane nature, his Resurrection, his Office, and his approaching Judgement; dost thou see that all thy supposed Righteousness is but Vanity and sin, and that thou art not able to make the least satisfaction to the Law by thy works or sufferings, and if his blood did not wash thee, and his Righteousness justify thee, thou must certainly be damned yet and perish for ever; do thou therefore cast thy self into his Arms and venture thy everlasting state upon him, and trust him with thy Soul, and fetch all thy help and healing from him, dost thou so build upon his promise of an happiness hereafter, that thou canst let all go here, and drink of His cap, and be Baptised with his Baptism, and lose thy life upon his promise that thou shalt save it, why this is kissing the hand of Christ. Beloved I profess to you all in the name of the Lord, that it is not your bold and confident affirming that you love Christ which will serve your turn, when Christ shall judge, he will search deep and judge according to truth in the inward parts. How many thousand will perish then as his utter Enemies, that verily thought themselves his ⟨image 8⟩friends. How easily might they now find their mistake would they now examine themselves, Oh try, try Sirs before God try you, judge your selves before Christ jugeth you, it would grieve a mans heart that knows what it is to love Christ, to believe and be subject to him, to see how rare these are in the world.
Dost thou take him for thy only Saviour, and truly beleive this history of his Life and Passion the truth of his Divine and humane nature, his Resurrection, his Office, and his approaching Judgement; dost thou see that all thy supposed Righteousness is but Vanity and sin, and that thou art not able to make the least satisfaction to the Law by thy works or sufferings, and if his blood did not wash thee, and his Righteousness justify thee, thou must certainly be damned yet and perish for ever; do thou therefore cast thy self into his Arms and venter thy everlasting state upon him, and trust him with thy Soul, and fetch all thy help and healing from him, dost thou so build upon his promise of an happiness hereafter, that thou canst let all go here, and drink of His cap, and be Baptised with his Baptism, and lose thy life upon his promise that thou shalt save it, why this is kissing the hand of Christ. Beloved I profess to you all in the name of the Lord, that it is not your bold and confident affirming that you love Christ which will serve your turn, when Christ shall judge, he will search deep and judge according to truth in the inward parts. How many thousand will perish then as his utter Enemies, that verily thought themselves his