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heaven_n	enter_v	kingdom_n	pharisee_n	2,122	5	9.8802	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27042	A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament at Westminster, at their late solemn fast for the setling of these nations, April 30, 1660 / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1413; ESTC R209398	26,650	54

thousands that will still be so careless of themselves Once more therefore I entreate you Remember your misdoings lest God remember them And bless the Lord that called you this day by the voice of Mercy to Remember them upon terms of Faith and Hope Remembred they must be first or last And believe it this is far unlike the sad remembrance at Judgement and in the place of woe and desperation And I beseech you observe here that it is your Own misdoings that you must Remember Had it been only the sins of other men especially those that differ from you or have wronged you or stand against your interest how easily would the duty have been performed How little need should I have had to press it with all this importunity How confident should I be that I could convert the most if this were the Conversion It grieves my soul to hear how quick and constant high and low learned and unlearned are at this uncharitable contumelious remembring of the faults of others how cunningly they can bring in their insinuated accusations how odiously they can aggravate the smallest faults where difference causeth them to distaste the person how ordinarily they judge of actions by the persons as if any thing were a crime that is done by such as they dislike and all were vertue that is done by those that fit their humours How commonly Brethren have made it a part of their service of God to speak or write uncharitably of his servants labouring to destroy the hearers charity which had more need in this unhappy time of the bellows then the water How usual it is with the ignorant that cannot reach the truth and the impious that cannot bear it to call such Hereticks that know more then themselves and to call such Precisians Puritanes or some such name which Hell invents as there is occasion who dare not be so bad as they How odious men pretending to much gravity learning and moderation do labour to make those that are dear to God and what an art they have to widen differences and make a sea of every lake and that perhaps under pretence of blaming the uncharitableness of others How far the very Sermons and discourses of some learned men are from the common rule of doing as we would be done by and how loudly they proclaim that such men love not their neighbours as themselves the most uncharitable words seeming moderate which they give and all called intemperate that savoureth not of flattery which they receive Were I calling the several exasperated factions now in England to remember the misdoings of their supposed adversaries What full-mouth'd and debasing Confessions would they make What monsters of Heresie and Schism of impiety treason and rebellion of perjury and perfidiousness would too many make of the faults of others while they extenuate their Own to almost nothing It is a wonder to observe how the case doth alter with the most when that which was their adversaries case becomes their own The very prayers of the godly and their care of their salvation and their fear of sinning doth seem their crime in the eyes of some that easily bear the guilt of swearing drunkenness sensuality filthiness and neglect of duty in themselves as a tolerable burden But if ever God indeed convert you though you will pitty others yet he will teach you to begin at home and take the beam out of your own eyes and to cry out I am the miserable sinner And lest these generals seem insufficient for us to confess on such a day as this and lest yet your memories should need more help is it not my duty to mind you of some particulars which yet I shall not do by way of accusation but of enquiry Far be it from me to judge so hardly of you that when you come hither to lament your sins you cannot with patience endure to be told of them 1. Enquire then whether there be none among you that live a sensual careless life cloathed with the best and faring deliciously every day in gluttony or drunkenness chambering and wantonness strife or envying not putting on Christ nor walking in the Spirit but making provision for the flesh to satisfie the lusts thereof Rom. 13. 13 14. Is there none among you that spend your precious time in vanities that is allowed you to prepare for life eternal that have time to waste in complements and fruitless talk and visits in gaming and unnecessary recreations in excessive feasting and entertainments while God is neglected and your souls forgotten and you can never find an hour in a day to make ready for the life which you must live for ever Is there none among you that would take that man for a Puritan or Phanatick that should employ but half so much time for his soul and in the service of the Lord as you do in unnecessary sports and pleasures and pampering your flesh Gentlemen if there be any such among you as you love your souls Remember your misdoings and bewail these abominations before the Lord in this day of your professed humiliation 2. Enquire whether there be none among you that being strangers to the New birth and to the inward workings of the Spirit of Christ upon the soul do also distaste an holy Life and make it the matter of your reproach and pacifie your accusing consciences with a Religion made up of meer words and heartless out-side and so much obedience as your fleshly pleasures will admit accounting those that go beyond you especially if they differ from you in your modes and circumstances to be but a company of proud Pharisaical self-conceited hypocrites and those whom you desire to suppress If there should be one such person here I would entreat him to remember that it is the solemn asseveration of our Judge that Except a man be converted and be born again of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of heaven Joh. 3. 3 5. Mat. 18. 3. That if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 8. 9. That if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are past away and all things are become new 2 Cor. 5. 17. That without holiness none shall see God Heb. 12. 14. That the wisdom that is from above is first Pure and then Peaceable Jam. 3. 17. That God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 23 24. That they worship in vain that teach for Doctrines the commandments of men Mat. 15. 8 9. And that Except your righteousness exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 20. And I desire you to remember that its hard to kick against the pricks and to prosper in rage against the Lord and that its better for that man that offendeth one of his little ones to have had a mill-stone fastened to his neck