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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.
What say you sirs in answer to my message, what do you resolve upon, shall Christ be your love, and your Lord or not, will you kiss the Son, or will you slight him still, methinks you should easily be resolved, and say, Away with Credit, Pleasure, Profits, away with these bewitching Delights and vanities, Christ has bought my heart and he shall have it, he is my Lord and I will be ruled by him. I persuade you not to Opinions or Factions, but to be with all your heart for Christ, as ever you look Christ should be for you: to love him as he that hath bought you from everlasting wrath, and dyed to save you from Eternal Burnings, to lay hold of him with most earnest affectionate Apprehension, as a man that is ready to be drowned would do upon a bough, or the hand of his friend that would pull him to the shore, to do nothing till thou hast asked counsel at his word, these are the things I exhort you to, these are things that Christ expects from you: Think of what I say, and weigh it, if I speak not Truth and Reason reject it and spare not, but if it be, and thy Conscience tell thee so, take heed then how thou dost neglect it or reject it, least thou be found a fighter against the Spirit of God.
What say you sirs in answer to my message, what do you resolve upon, shall Christ be your love, and your Lord or not, will you kiss the Son, or will you slight him still, methinks you should easily be resolved, and say, Away with Credit, Plcasure, Profits, away with these bewitching Delights and vanities, Christ has bought my heart and he shall have it, he is my Lord and I will be ruled by him. I perswade you not to Opinions or Factions, but to be with all your heart for Christ, as ever you look Christ should be for you: to love him as he that hath bought you from everlasting wrath, and dyed to save you from Eternal Burnings, to lay hold of him with most earnest affectionate Apprehension, as a man that is ready to be drowned would do upon a bough, or the hand of his friend that would pull him to the shore, to do nothing till thou hast asked counsel at his word, these are the things I exhort you to, these are things that Christ expects from you: Think of what I say, and weigh it, if I speak not Truth and Reason reject it and spare not, but if it be, and thy Conscience tell thee so, take heed then how thou dost neglect it or reject it, least thou be found a fighter against the Spirit of God.