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A27062	Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day of judgment, from 2 Cor. 5. 10, 2. The danger of slighting Christ and his Gospel, from Matth. 22. 5 / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Terror of the day of judgment.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Danger of slighting Christ and his gospel.	1696 (1696)	Wing B1443; ESTC R16419	109,733	266

with the Mammon of Unrighteousness and ventured all his Hope in this Vessel And now he findeth the Wisdom of that Choice in a rich Return God made him so wise a Merchant as to sell all for this Pearl of greatest Price and therefore now he shall find the Gain As there is no other true Happiness but God in Glory so is there nothing more sutable and welcome to the true Believer O how welcome will the Face of that God be whom he loved sought longed and waited for How welcome will that Kingdom be which he lived in hope of which he parted with all for and suffered for in the Flesh How glad will he be to see the blessed Face of his Redeemer who by his manifold Grace hath brought him unto this I leave the believing Soul to think of it and to make it the daily matter of his delightful Meditation what an unconceivable Joy in one Moment will this Sentence of Christ will fill his Soul with Undoubtedly it is now quite past our Comprehension though our imperfect Forethoughts of it may well make our Lives a continual Feast Were it but our Justification from the Accusations of Satan who would have us condemned either as Sinners in general or as impenitent unbelieving Rebels against him that redeemed us in special it would lift up the Heads of the Saints in that Day After all the Fears of our own Hearts and the slanderous Accusations of Satan and the World That we were either impenitent Infidels or Hypocrites Christ will then justify us and pronounce us righteous So much for the Condition to which they are judged 2. The Reason or Cause of this Justification of the Saints is given us both 1. In a general Denomination and 2. In a particular Description 1. In general it is because they were righteous as is evident Mat. 25. 6. The Righteous shall go into Life everlasting And indeed it is the Business of every just Judg to justify the Righteous and condemn the Unrighteous And shall not the Judg of all the Earth judg righteously Gen. 18. 25. God makes Men righteous before he judges them so and judgeth them righteous because they are so He that abominateth that Man who saith to the Righteous Thou art wicked or to the Wicked Thou art righteous who justifieth the Wicked and condemneth the Righteous will certainly never do so himself Indeed he will justify them that are Sinners but not against the Accusation that they are Sinners but against the Accusation that they are guilty of Punishment for Sin but that is because he first made them just and so justifiable by pardoning their Sin through the Blood of Christ And it 's true also that he will justify those that were wicked but not those that are wicked but Judgment findeth them as Death leaveth them and he will not take them for wicked that are sanctified and cleansed of their former Wickedness So that Christ will first pardon them before he justify them against the Charge of being Sinners in general and he will first give Men Faith Repentance and new Obedience before he will justify them against the Charge of being Impenitent Infidels or Hypocrites and consequently ●mpardoned and doubly guilty of Damnation This twofold Righteousness he will first give Men and so constiture them just before he will declare it and sentence them just 2. The Reason of the Sentence particularly described is from their Faith and Love to Christ expressed in their Obedience Self-denial and forsaking all for him For I was hungry and ye fed me I was thirsty and ye gave me daink I was a Stranger and ye took me in naked and ye clothed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in Prison and ye came to me Verily I say unto you inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me Mat. 25. 35 to 41. Here is 1. The causal Conjuction for 2. And the Cause or Reason it self Concerning both which observe 1. How it is that Man's Obedience and Self-denial is the Reason and Cause of his Justification 2. Why it is that God will have the Reason or Cause thus declared in the Sentence For the first observe that it 's one thing to give a Reason of the Sentence and another thing to express the Cause of the Benefit given us by the Promise and judged to us by the Sentence Man's Obedience was no proper Cause why God did in this Life give Pardon of Sin to us or a Right to Glory much less of his giving Christ to die for us And therefore as to our constitutive Justification at our Conversion we must not say or think that God doth justify us for or because of any Works of our Obedience legal or evangelical But when God hath so justified us when he comes to give a Reason of his Sentence in Judgment he may and will fetch that Reason partly from our Obedience or our Performance of the Conditions of the new Covenant For as in this Life we had a Righteousness consisting in free Pardon of all Sin through the Blood of Christ and a Righteousness consisting in our personal Performance of the Conditions of the Promise which giveth that Pardon and continueth it to us so at Judgment we shall accordingly be justified And as our evangelical personal Righteousness commonly called inherent was at first only in our Faith and Repentance and Disposition to obey but afterward in our actual sincere Obedience in which Sense we are constitutively justified or made righteous here by our Works in James his sense James 2. 24. so accordingly a double Reason will be assigned of our sentential Justification one from our Pardon by Christ's Blood and Merits which will prove our Right to Impunity and to Glory the other from our own Faith and holy Obedience which will prove our Right to that Pardon through Christ and to the free Gift of a Right to Glory and To this last is to be pleaded in Subordination to the former For Christ is become the Author of eternal Salvation to all them that obey him Heb. 5. 9. He therefore that will be saved must have a Christ to save him as the Author and an Obedience to that Christ as the Condition of that Salvation and consequently both must be declared in the Judgment The Reason why the Judg doth mention our good Works rather than our believing may be because those holy self-denying Expressions of Faith and Love to Christ do contain or certainly imply Faith in them as the Life of the Tree is in the Fruit but Faith doth contain our Works of Obedience but only as their Cause The Works also are a Part of the personal Righteousness which is to be enquired after that is we shall not be judged righteous meerly because we have believed but also because we have added to our Faith Vertue and have improved our Talents and have loved Christ to the hazard of all for his

must die wi●● you not believe us because you have lived so long and seen no Death coming Three or Four things there be that should bring any Matter to the Heart 1. If it be a Matter or exceeding Weight 2. If it concern not others only but our selves 3. If it be certain 4. If near All these things are here to be sound and therefore how should your Hearts be moved at the Consideration of this great Day 1. What Matter can be mentioned with the Tongue of Man of greater moment For the poor Creture to stand before his Maker and Redeemer to be judged to everlasting Joy or Torment Alas all the Matters of this World are Plays and Toys and Dreams to this Matters of Profit or Disprofit are nothing to it Matter● of Credit or Discredit are unworthy to be named with it Matters of temporal Life or Death are nothing to it We may see the poor brute Beasts go every Day to the Slaughter and we make no great matter of it though their Life be as dear to them as ours to us To be judged to an everlasting Death or Torment this is the great Danger that one would think should shake the stoutest Heart to consider it and awake the dullest Sinner to prevent it 2. It 's a Matter the concerneth every one of your●selves and every Man or Woman that ever lived upon the Earth or ever shall do I am not speaking to you 〈◊〉 the Affairs of some far Country that are nothing to you but only to marvel at which you never saw not ever shall do no it is thy own self Man or Woman that hearest me this Day that shalt as surely appear before the Judgment-seat of Christ as the Lord liveth and as he is true and faithful and that is as sure as thou livest on this Earth or as the Heaven is over thee That Man that heareth all this with the most careless blockish Heart shall be awakened and stand with the rest at that Day that Man that never thought of it but spent his time in worldly Matters shall leave all and there appear that Man that will not believe these things to be true but make a Jest ofthem shall see and feel that he would not believe and he also shall be there the Godly that waited in Hope for that Day as the Day of their full Deliverance and Coronation they shall be there those that have lain in the Dust these 5000 Years shall rise again and all stand there Hearer whoever thou art believe it thou maist better think to live without Meat to see without Light to escape Death and abide for ever on Earth than to keep away from that Appearance Willing or unwilling thou shalt be there And should not a Matter then that so concerneth thy self go near thy Heart and awake thee from thy Security 3. That it is a Matter of unquestionable Certainty I have partly shewed you already and more would do if I were preaching to known Infidels If the careless World had any just Reason to think it were uncertain their Carelesness were more excusable Methinks a Man should be affected withthat which he is certain shall come to pass in a manner as if it were now in doing 1 Thess 5. 2. Ye perfectly know that the Day of the Lord so cometh c. saith the Apostle 4. This day is not only certain but it is near and therefore should affect you the more I confess if it were never so far off yet seeing it will come at last it should be carefully regarded But when the Judg is at the Door James 5. 9. and we are almost at the Bar and it is so short a time to this Assize what Soul that is not dead will be secure Alas Sirs what is a little time when it is gone how quickly shall you and I be all in another World and our Souls receive their particular Judgment and so wait till the Body be raised and judged to the same Condition It is not 100 Years in all likelihood till every Soul of us shall be in Heaven or Hell and it 's like not half or a quarter of that time but it will be so with the greater part of us and what is a Year or two or 100 how speedily is it come how many a Soul that is now in Heaven or Hell within 100 Years dwelt in the Places that you now dwell in and sat in the Seats you now sit in And now their time is past what is it Alas how quickly will it be so with us You know not when you go to Bed but you may be judged by the next Morning or when you rise but you may be judged before Night but certainly you know that shortly it will be and should not this then be laid to Heart Yea the general Judgment will not be long For certainly we live in the End of the World Qu. 4. My next Question is Whether are you ready for his dreadful Judgment when it comes or not Seeing it your selves then must be tried I think it concerns you to see that you be prepared How often hath Christ warned us in the Gospel that we be always ready because we know not the day or Hour of his coming Matth. 24. 44 42. and 25. 13 1 Thess 5. 6. and told us hos sad a time it will be to those that are unready Mat. 25. 11 12. Did Men but well know what a Meeting and Greeting there will be between Christ and an unready Soul it would sure startle them and make them look about them What say you beloved Hearers are you ready for Judgment or are you not Methinks a Man that knoweth he shall be judged should ask himself the question every day of his Life am I ready to give up my Account to God Do not you use to ask this of your own Hearts unless you be careless whether you be saved or damned methinks you should and ask it seriously Qu. But who be they that are ready how shall I know whether I be ready or not Answ There is a twofold Readiness 1. When you are in a safe Cafe 2. When you are in a comfortable Cafe in regard of that Day The latter is very desiraeble but the frist is of absolute Necessity this therefore is it that you must principally enquire after In general all those and only those are ready for Judgment who shall be justified and saved and not condemned when Judgment cor●es they that have a good Cause in a gospel-Gospel-sense It may be known before hand who these are for Christ judgeth as I told you by his Law And therefore find out whom it is that the Law of Grace doth justify or condemn and you may certainly know whom the Judg will justify or conemn for he judgeth righteously If you further ask me who these are remember that I told you before that every Man that is personally righteous by fulfilling the Conditions of Salvation in the Gospel shall be saved

Repentance when they have Consciences seared with an hot Iro● as the Apostle speaks 2 Tim. 4. 2. no wonder then 〈◊〉 they be past feeling and working all Uncleanness wi● greediness do make light of Christ and everlasting Gl●●ry O that this were not the Case of too many of 〈◊〉 Hearers Had we but living Souls to speak to the● would hear and feel and not make light of what 〈◊〉 sa● I know they are naturally alive but they 〈◊〉 spiritually dead as the Scripture witnesseth Ephes 2● O if there were but one spark of the Life of Grace them the Doctrine of Salvation by Jesus Christ wo● appear to them to be the weightiest Business in 〈◊〉 World O how confident should I be methinks to prevail with Men and to take them off this World and bring them to mind the Matter of another World if I spake but to Men that had Life and Sense and Reason but when we speak to Blocks and dead Men how should we be regarded O how sad a Case are these Souls in that are fallen under this fearful Judgment of s●iritual Madness and Deadness To have a blind 〈◊〉 and an hard Heart to be sottish and sensless 〈◊〉 ●4 12. John 12. 40. lest they should be converted and their Sins should be forgiven them 6. Christ and Salvation are made light of ●y the World because they are wholly enslaved to their Sense and taken up with lower things the Matters of another World are out of sight and so far from their Senses that they cannot regard them but present things are nearer them in their Eyes and in their Hands there must be a living Faith to prevail over Sense before Men can be so taken with things that are not seen though they have the Word of God for their Security as to neglect and let go things that are still before their Eyes Sense works with great Advantage and therefore doth much in resisting Faith where it is No wonder then if it carry all before it where there is no true and lively Faith to resist and to lead the Soul to higher things this Cause of making light of Christ and Sal●ation is expressed here in my Text One went to his ●arm and another to his Merchandize Men have Hou●es and Lands to look after they have Wife and Children to mind they have their Body and outward Estate ●o regard therefore they forget that they have a God 〈◊〉 Redeemer a Soul to mind these Matters of the World are still with them They see these but they 〈◊〉 not God nor Christ nor their Souls nor everlasting Glory These things are near at hand and therefore work ●aturally and so work forcibly but the other are thought ●n as a great way off and therefore too distant to work ●n their Affections or be at the present so much regarded by them Their Body hath Life and Sense and therefore if they want Meat or Drink or Clothes will feel their Want and tell them of it and give them no rest till their Wants be supplied and therefore they cannot make light of their bodily Necessities but their Souls in spiritual Respects are dead and therefore ●eel not their Wants but will let them alone in their greatest Necessities and be as quiet when they are starved and languishing to Destruction as if all were well and nothing ailed them And hereupon poor People are wholly taken up in providing for the Body as if they had nothing else to mind They have their Trades and Callings to follow and so much to do from Morning to Night that they can find no time for Matters of Salvation Christ would teach them but they have no leisure to hear him the Bible is before them but they cannot have while to read it A Minister is in the Town with them but they cannot have while to go to enquire of him what they should do to be saved And when they do hear their Hearts are so full of the World and carried away with these lower Matters that they cannot mind the things which they hear They are so full of the Thoughts and Desires and Cares of this World that there is no room to pour into them the Water of Life The Cares of the World do choak the Word and make it become unfruitful Matth. 13. 22. Men cannot serve two Masters God and Mammon but they will lean to the one and despise the other Matth. 6. 24. He that loveth the World the Love of the Father is not in him 1 Je●● 2. 15 16. Men cannot choose but set light by Christ and Salvation while they set so much by any thing on Earth It is that which is highly esteemed among Men is abominable in the Sight of God Luke 16. 15. O this is the Ruine of many thousand Souls It would grieve the Heart of any honest Christian to see how eagerly this vain World is followed everywhere and how little Men set by Christ and the World to come 〈◊〉 compare the Care that Men have for the World ●ith the Care of their Souls and the time that they ●y out on the World with that time they lay out ●r their Salvation To see how the World fills their ●ouths their Hands their Houses their Hearts ●●d Christ hath little more than a bare Title to come 〈◊〉 their Company and hear no Discourse but of the ●orld to come into their Houses and hear and see no●●ing but for the World as if this World would last ●r ever or would purchase them another When I ●k sometime the Ministers of the Gospel how their ●●bours succeed they tell me People continue still the 〈◊〉 and give up themselves wholly to the World so that 〈◊〉 mind not what Ministers say to them nor will give any 〈◊〉 Entertainment to the Word and all because of the delud●g World And O that too many Ministers themselves ●d not make light of that Christ whom they preach ●eing drawn away with the Love of this World In a ●ord Men of a worldly Disposition do judg of things ●cording to worldly Advantages therefore Christ 〈◊〉 slighted Isa 53. 3. He is despised and rejected of Men 〈◊〉 hide their faces from him and esteem him not as see●g no Beauty or Comeliness in him that they should desire ●n 7. Christ and Salvation are made light of because ●en do not soberly consider of the Truth and Weight of ●ese necessary things They suffer not their Minds 〈◊〉 long to dwell upon them till they procure a due ●steem and deeply affect their Heart did they be●●eve them and not consider of them how should they ●ork O when Men have Reason given them to think ●nd consider of the things that most concern them ●nd yet they will not use it this causeth their Con●●mpt 8. Christ and Salvation are made light of because ●en were never sensible of their Sin and Misery and ex●●am Necessity of Christ and his Salvation Their Eyes ●ere never opened to see themselves as they are nor their