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Richard Baxter's farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure, but forbidden.; Farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure but forbidden
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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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to be wholly freed from the pain Can sin and suffering be perfectly separated Do you think to continue ignorant and proud and selfish and in so much remaining unbelief carnality worldliness and sloth and yet never to feel the Rod or Spur nor suffer any more than if you had been innocent Deceive not your selves it will not be Sin lieth at the door and be sure at last it will find you out Prov. 11.31 Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the Earth much more the ungodly and the sinner Judgment must begin at the House of God and the righteous are saved with much ado 1 Pet. 4.17 18. God is not reconciled to the sins of any man And as he will shew by his dealings that he is reconciled to their persons so will he shew that he is not reconciled to their sins If God continue your sufferings any longer than you continue your sin and if you can truly say I am afflicted though I am innocent then your impatience may have some excuse 2. Your sorrows shall be no longer than you make them necessary and will you grudge at your own benefit Or at the trouble of your Physick while you continue your disease It is but if need be that now for a season ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1.6 And who maketh the Need Is it God or you Who maketh you dull and sloathful and sensual Who turneth your hearts to earthly things and deprives you of the sweetness of things spiritual and heavenly Who maketh you proud and unbelieving and uncharitable It is he that doth this that causeth the need of your afflictions and is to be blamed for the bitterness of them but it is your Physician that is to be thanked and praised for fitting them so wisely to your Cure 3. Your sorrows shall not be so long as you deserve It is strange ingratitude for that man to grudge at a short affliction that is saved from everlasting misery and confesseth he hath deserved the pains of Hell Confess with thankfulness That it is his mercy that you are not consumed and condemned because his compassions fail not If God be your portion hope in him For the Lord is good to them that wait for him to the Soul that seeketh him It is good that you both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord It is good for a man that he bear the yoak in his youth He sitteth alone and keepeth silence because he hath born it upon him He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope He giveth his Cheek to him that smiteth him he is filled full with reproach For the Lord will not cast off for ever but though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies Lam. 3.22 to 33. Ezr. 9.13 All that is come upon us is for our evil deeds and for our great trespasses and God hath punished us less than our iniquities 4. Your sorrows shall not be so long as the sorrows of the ungodly nor as those that you must endure if you will chuse sin to escape these present sorrows Abels sorrow is not so long as Cains Nor Peters or Pauls so long as Judas's If the Offering of a more acceptable Sacrifice do cost a righteous man his life alas what is that to the punishment that malignant envious Cainites or treacherous Judas's must endure What is the worst that man can do or the most that God will here inflict to the Reprobates endless hellish torments O had you seen what they endure or had you felt those pains but a day or hour I can hardly think that you would ever after make so great a matter of the sufferings of a Christian here for Christ or that you would fear such sufferings more than hell It is disingenuous to repine at so gentle a Rod at the same time whilst millions are in the flames of Hell and when these sufferings tend to keep you thence 5. Your sorrows shall not be so long as your following joys if you be persevering conquering believers What is a sickness or a scorn or a Prison or banishment or shame or death when it must end in the endless joys of Heaven O do but believe these with a lively sound effectual Faith and you will make light of all the sufferings in the way Nihil crus sentit in nervo saith Tertullian cum animus est in Coelo The mind that is in Heaven and seeth him that is invisible will easily bear the Bodies pains Mistake not in your accounts and you will reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in us Rom. 8.18 2 Cor. 4.17 18. For our light affliction which is but for a moment doth work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen For the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal Use 2. And if it be but for a Now that you must have sorrows how reasonable is it that those sorrows be moderated and mixt with joy And how just are those commands Rejoice evermore 1 Thes 5.16 Math. 5 10 11 12. Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven Rom. 12.12 Rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation Act. 5.42 How rational was their joy who being beaten and forbidden to Preach departed from the presence of the Council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ 1 Pet. 4.13 14. Rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christs sufferings If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you On their part he is evil spoken of but on your part he is glorified It is a shame to be dejected under a short and tolerable pain which is so near to the eternal pleasure and to suffer as if we believed not the end and so to sorrow as men that are without hope Doct. 4. Christ will again visit his sorrowful Disciples He removeth not from them with an intent to cast them off When he hideth his face he meaneth not to forsake them When he taketh away any ordinances or mercies he doth not give them a Bill of divorce When he seemeth to yield to the powers of darkness he is not overcome nor will he give up his Kingdom or Interest in the World When he letteth the Boar into his Vineyard it is not to make it utterly desolate or turn it common to the barren wilderness For 1. He hath conquered the greatest enemies already and therefore there remaineth none to conquer him He hath triumphed over Satan Death and Hell He hath conquered sin and what is there left to depose him from his Dominion 2. He retaineth still his