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A26917 Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace with motives opening the lamentable effects of their weaknesses and distempers / by Richard Baxter. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1669 (1669) Wing B1249; ESTC R15683 216,321 412

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of him shall be much required and to whom men have committed much of him they will ask the more Luke 12.48 DIRECT XVII Redeem your Time and highly value every minute and spare for no labour in the work of your salvation Dream not of an easie idle sluggish life as sufficient to your high and glorious ends Nor rest not in a customary and outside way of duty without regard to the Life and the success IF any thing in all the World require all our power and time it is that for which all our powers and time are given us and which we are sure will a thousand fold recompense us for all O what a sottish kind of stupidity is it for a man to trifle in the way to eternity that hath an endless life of joy or sorrow depending on the preparations of so short a life How little doth he know the worth of his Soul the Joyes of Heaven the terrors of Hell the malicious diligence of Satan or the difficulty of Salvation that can idle and play away whole hours of time and pray as if he prayed not and seem to be Religious when he is not in good earnest and bestireth not himself so much to escape Hell fire and to obtain everlasting Joyes with Christ as he would do to escape a temporal death or misery or to obtain some dignity or riches in the World 1 Cor. 7.29 30. O therefore as ever you care what becometh of your Souls and as ever you will have comfort in the review of your present life make not a jest of Heaven and Hell Trifle not in your race and warfare Dally not with God and Conscience Play not and dream not away your Time Know the worth of an hours Time for the sake of your work and of your Souls as it is commonly known by dying men But of this I have spoke already in my NOW or NEVER and a Saint or a Bruite and in the third part of the Saints Rest. DIRECT XVIII Sit down and count what it may cost you to be Christians indeed and to be saved Reckon not on prosperity or a cheap Religion but resolve to take up the Cross and follow Christ in suffering and to be Crucified to the World and by many tribulations to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Luke 14.26 27 28 30 33. Gal. 6.14 Acts 14.22 1 Thes. 3.4 and 2 Thess. 1.6 7 8. Mal. 5.10 11 12. 2 Tim. 3.12 ALL that will live godly in Christ shall suffer Persecution It is not All that are Baptized and called Christians but All that will live godly in Christ Jesus It is Godliness and not the bare name of Christianity which the Serpents Seed have so great an enmity to I have elswhere cited an excellent saying of Dr. Th. Jacksons to prove that this is to be expected under Christian as well as Heathen Governments and that it is not through the goodness of the Great ones of the World but the cowardliness of our hearts that the Ministers of Christ are not ordinarily Martyrs Though God may possibly exempt you from any notable suffering for his Cause yet it is not wise or safe to expect such an exemption For that will hinder your preparation for Suffering And a mind prepared to suffer is essential to true Christianity And no man that is not a Martyr in Resolution and disposition can be saved If the fiery tryal come upon you let it not seem a strange unexpected thing 1 Pet. 4.12 13 14 17. When Persecution ariseth because of the Word the unrooted unfound unsetled Christian is presently offended and falls away Mat. 13.21 Mark 4.17 Then they will fall to distinguishing and carnal reasoning and prove any thing lawful which is necessary to their Peace Gal. 6.12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the Flesh they constrain you to be Circumcised only lest they should suffer Persecution for the Cross of Christ Gal. 6.12 Shrink not for Sufferings Fear not them that can but kill the body Luke 12.4 Never doth the Spirit of God and Glory so much rest upon Believers as in their greatest Sufferings for Righteousness sake 1 Pet. 4.14 and never have they cause of more exceeding joy Matth. 5.11 12. Prosperity doth not so well agree with a life of Faith as Sufferings and Adversity Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory while we look not at the temporal things which are not seen but at the things eternal which are not seen 2 Cor. 4.17 18. Read Rom. 8.33 to the end DIRECT XIX If you fall into any sin rise speedily by a through Repentance and take heed both of delay and of a palliate Cure Luke 13.3 5. and 22.32 TAke heed of trusting to a General Repentance or a Converted state instead of a particular Repentance and Conversion from any known sin especially which is more than the ordinary unavoidable infirmities of a Saint For it is not General Repentance indeed which reacheth not to every known particular If temptation have cast you down take heed of lying there but presently get up again What the Apostle saith of Wrath Eph. 4.26 the same I may say of other falls Let not the Sun go down upon them But go out with Peter and weep with him if you have sinned with him If your bones be out of joynt or broken get them set presently before they settle in their dislocation And let the Cure be through and spare not for a little pain at first Let as open confession as the case requireth and as full restitution signify the sincerity of your Repentance For a gentle handling of your selves may undo you And palliation is the Hypocrites cure O take heed lest you presume to sleep one night in your unrepented sin and take heed lest Delay encourage the Tempter to offer you the bait again and again and to say Why not once more Why may you not be as well pardoned for twice as for once and for thrice as for twice c. It 's dangerous playing or sleeping at the brink of Hell Away from the temptation and occasion of your sin stand not disputing but Resolve and be gone And sin no more lest a worse thing come unto you John 5.14 Stick not man at the shame or loss or suffering which confession restitution or reformation may bring but remember that you can never escape damnation at too dear a rate This is Christs meaning when he speaketh of cutting off a Right hand or plucking out a right eye if it offend that is ensnare and tempt you unto sin Matth. 5.29 30. Not that you should do so indeed for you have an easier way to avoid the sin but that this is far the lesser of the two evils to lose a hand or eye than to lose the Soul and therefore to be chosen if there were no other remedy If the thief had no other way to forbear stealing than to cut off