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Memorables of the life of faith taken out of Mr. B's sermon preached before the King at Whitehall : published thus for the poor that want money and memory / by one desirous to promote the common salvation.
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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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that seeks a Happiness that he never saw and that with a greater estimation and resolution than he seeks any things that he hath seen 5. He is one that all his life prepareth for a day that is yet to come and for the presence of his Judge One that is asking O what Life and Actions will be sweetest upon review when I come to my doom Not so much caring what will now best please the flesh and ingratiate with men 6. He is one careful to prevent a threatned misery that he never felt and a place of torment that he never saw Other Faiths are ineffectual Dreams And remember to dream you are Princes may consist with Beggery 1. O how rare a Jewel is true Faith 2. And how weak in Faith are the most of true Believers Even as Dying men are weak in Body 3. How plain is the reason that Believers are seriously holy just and charitable They are men that do see the Lord see Heaven see Hell Their Faith sees them all in the Glass of Divine Revelations 4. How plain is the reason that Vnbelievers are careless of their hearts and ways and mock at Believers care and take them for fools and mad men Poor wretches they do not see the things that Believers see If they saw the King of glory as Believers do see him they must reverence him as Believers do reverence him Q. 5. Does it not concern every man then to make sure of this Faith This that is given to make things to come as if they were at hand and things unseen as if we saw them A. It doth infinitely concern every man For 1. It is not so common a thing as most do imagine it 2. Till you have it you are no living Members of Christ 3. Till you have it you are at enmity with God 4. Till you have it you are under the guilt of all your sins No one of them is forgiven 5. Till you have it you will be carnally minded and thro' the carnal end you will have in them your works that be good materially will be corrupt and fleshly 6. Till you have it you have no right to Heaven Joh. 3. 16 18 36. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life He that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Q. 6. Well how shall I know whether I have this true Faith and saving tho' in the least and lowest degree of it A. All that have it tho' in the lowest degree will have these four signs of it within them 1. A Practical Estimation of things unseen above all earthly things 2. An Habitual Inclination of heart to embrace unseen things freely delightfully and resolutely above and against earthly things 3. A Bent of Life for God and for unseen Blessedness as in Resolution so in Practice 4. A Disposition to let go all sensible possessions when they be inconsistent with spiritual Hopes and Happiness Luk. 14. 33. So likewise whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my disciple These you will have if Faith be the Eye you do see by for the conduct of your Life Q. 7. If Faith be the Eye by which I do see whereby should I quicken my self to live by it Or if it be not wherewithal should I stir up my self to seek Faith and the Life of Faith A. Put to thy Heart these questions frequently and seriously Q. 1. What should I be if I saw the Lord continually before me And that as verily as I ever see a man If I saw him as Moses saw him Exod. 34. Or as John saw him Rev. 1. 13. And in the midst of the seven Candlesticks one like unto the Son of Man clothed with a garment down to the foot and girt about the paps with a golden girdle Or as St. Paul saw him Acts 9. Q. 2. What should I be if I had seen the things that God hath done already in time past If I had seen the World drowned and the Ark saved Sodom and Gomorrah burned and the righteous Lot saved Pharaoh and his Host swallowed up of the red Sea and the Israelites saved And the like memorables of the H. Scripture Q. 3. What should I be if I saw the glory of Heaven above If I were rapt up but into the third Heaven and had seen what St. Paul saw If I had seen what St. Stephen saw before his Death If I had seen Lazarus in Abraham 's Bosom Q. 4. What should I be if I saw the face of Death and were under the power of a mortal sickness and were given over by all Physicians and Friends Or had a Messenger from God to tell me I must die to morrow Q. 5. What should I be if I saw the great and dreadful day of Judgment as Christ doth describe it Mat. 25. If I saw that fulfilled which St. Paul speaks 2 Thes 1. 7 8 9 And to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power Q. 6. What should I be if I heard Satan accusing me for all my sins unto God and calling for justice against me Q. 7. What should I be if I had seen and did now see the Damned in their miseries If I heard them cry out of the folly and self-destruction of their careless lives And wishing one were sent from the dead unto me to warn me that I come not unto their place of torment Q. 8. What should I be if in my Temptations unto sin I saw the Devil the Tempter and heard him hissing me on to sin to Swear Curse Rail Lie Scorn a holy Life O should I then ever chuse to be ungodly or be patient of so being Nay Q. 1. Should I not say in my heart that the most gainful sin is worse than madness Q. 2. Should I not plead for the most serious Godliness Q. 3. Should I ever be offended with a Minister again for plainest Reproof and closest Exhortation Or for too much and plain Preaching Q. 4. Should I not hear at another rate than ever yet I heard a Sermon Q. 5. Should I not give over my greedy pursuit of worldly Wealth and Credit Q. 6. Should I ever be drawn away by Temptations again as I have been Q. 7. Should I ever stick at sufferings when God calls for them from me Q. 8. Should I not highly value Christ his Spirit his Grace his Promises his Word his Ordinances Q. 9. Should I ever be quiet under uncertainty of my Reconciliation unto God Q. 10. Should I not then be all for Peace Quietness and Love with all that love the Lord Jesus Christ and are seeking invisible things 1. O live not too much on things visible 2. Live upon the things invisible 3. Promote the Life of Faith in others Remember 1. Worldliness is a loathsom Disease To live by Sense is to stand on ones head and to turn ones heels toward Heaven 'T is unnatural 2. Vnseen things be the only great and necessary ones 3. Faith is the Souls Wisdom Sensuality is very Blindness 4. Visible things are transitory They be things that are not 5. Things visible by their changing give us a disgraceful mutability Fill us with disappointments and vexations 6. Fore-seeing Faith is of necessity unto your Eternal blessed Life 7. Vnseen things kept duly in your thoughts will serve you excellently unto these things 1. They will repel your Temptations 2. Quicken you to your Duties 3. Instruct you to choose your Companies 4. Furnish you with daily Comforts and Satisfaction Things Sublunary be something or nothing as they relate unto Eternity We judge of Means as they conduce unto their Ends. I desire to know no mercy in any other Form or Name and to value none upon any other account Idem alicubi I have lived a sweet Life by Gods Promises and I hope through Grace can die by a Promise They be Gods Promises can stand by us Through them Life is mine Death is mine God's Covenant is all my Salvation and all my desire Jos Alleyn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O that I could by the effectualness of Contemplation behold the greatness of the heavenly Felicity which is provided for me Yet as I can conceive it I cannot chuse but long to be absent from hence that I may be present with the Lord J. Ratliff These Four Books are lately Published by Mr. Baxter 1. English Nonconformity truly stated and argued 2. A Treatise of Knowledge and Love 3. Cain and Abel or Enmity to serious Godliness Lamented 4. Scripture Gospel Defended and Christ Grace and free Justification vindicated London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1690.