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A testimony to the power of God being greater than the power of Satan contrary to all those who hold no perfection here, no freedom from sin on this side of the grave / which doleful doctrine is here testified against by Richard Baker.
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Baker, Richard, d. 1697.; Baker, Mary.
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our day hath brought mighty things to pass which many will not believe though it hath been often declared It hath wrought the same Works now as it did in the Apostles days in teaching to deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and also to live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World Tit. 2.12 And there be many Witnesses that have been raised from the Dead or out of the Spiritual Death who do declare of it who were once dead in Trespasses and Sins But the Goodness of the Lord hath led them to Repentance and raised them to Life Now the Reason why many will not believe is because they love their Evil Deeds Therefore they hate the Light and will not bring their Deeds to it lest by it they should be Reproved For this is the Condemnation That Light is come into the World and Men love Darkness rather than Light and such have ignorantly called the Light Darkness But they that love the Light and know what it is they do bring their Deeds to it that they may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3.19 20 21. For the Light makes all things manifest yea the hidden things of Esau are made manifest by the Light My Advice and Counsel to thee is in the Fear of the Lord Bring thy Deeds to the Light if ever thou intendest or desirest to be Everlastingly Happy Let not the Enemy of thy Soul deceive thee any longer For it is better to Suffer Affliction with the People of God than to injoy the Pleasures of Sin which are but for a season though they be never so much applauded by the Sons and Daughters of Men. Such as Men sow they must reap They that sow to the Flesh must of the Flesh reap Corruption and they that sow to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting Gal. 6.7 8. Consider well those words ye Proud and Haughty Ones and be no longer joyned to the Spirit of this World For the Lord God hath a Controversie against it And he hath determined the Downfal of the Man of Sin which many have witnessed already fulfilled in themselves And the Lord is now fitting and preparing them for himself For it is not the Devil 's right to rule in Man But it is the Lord 's right alone to rule there and he will have no Sharers with him in his Government Let none put the Day of the Lord afar off for this is the Day of the Lord And unless thou knowest him to rule in thee now who alone can destroy the Devil and his Works thy believing he shall rule hereafter if Satan continues to rule in thee here will stand thee in little stead fot that Belief will not purifie thy Heart and it is only the pure in Heart that can see God Mat. 5.8 Heb. 12.14 For Christ Jesus was made manifest for this very End that he might destroy the Works of the Devil 1 John 3.8 And although the Men of this World have set themselves in Opposition against this Truth of the Lord and have pleaded for the Continuance of Sin and therein for the Devil's Power yet we know in whom we have believed and in the Light of the Lord they are seen and their Fruits have made manifest whose Servants they are For his Servants they are to whom they obey whether of Sin unto Death or of Obedience unto Righteousness Rom. 6.16 And tho' many of them have promised or others have promised for them to forsake the Devil and all his Works and to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments all the days of their lives yet they are ready to cry out Blasphemy when they are told Whosoever is born of God doth not commit Sin tho' they are the plain words of Scripture 1 John 3.9 So Zealous are they for their Master's interest Reader if thou art one who hath been taught for Doctrine Mens Precepts as too many now are let me perswade thee to come to the Witness of God in thee and try which is the best Teacher For that Inward Teacher teacheth safe and sure neither can it be removed into a Corner And if thou turn'st to the right hand or to the left thou shalt hear a Word behind thee from this Inward Teacher saying This is the Way walk in it Isa 30.21 This is the plain Man's Path wherein though a Fool in the Worlds esteem he shall not err Isa 35.8 What tho' the Lord leads his People in a way contrary to the Wisdom of the World which makes them the Scorn and Derision of the World Be not discouraged for how can it be otherwise it being the same way which the holy Men of God walked in in Ages past But our Rejoycing is this The Testimony of a good Conscience And we do know as God's faithful Servants did of old The Reproaches for Christ are greater Riches than any there are in Egypt's Land which is a Place of Darkness But we have known the Lord to Redeem us out of that Bondage and deep Captivity and now we can sing Praises and Thanksgivings unto our God who is over all both in Heaven and in Earth blessed for ever and for evermore Friendly Reader I have here out of Love and Good Will to thee and to all Mankind declared unto thee the Goodness of the Lord unto my poor Soul that thou mayst be incouraged to walk in the Light of the Lord which he hath made manifest in this our day For it concerns thee most to know the Lord's Work in thy day that thou mayst have a sense of the Operation of the Power of God on thy Heart before thou goest hence O let not the Enemy of thy Soul prevail with thee to plead for the continuance of Sin term of Life Did Men but know how they do thereby advance the Kingdom of the Enemy of their Souls they never more would open their Mouths on Sins behalf unless they are like those of old who said We have made a Covenant with Death and with Hell are we at an Agreement Isa 28.15 For they who deny Perfection or Freedom from Sin deny the very End and Purpose for which Christ came and was manifested in the Flesh which was to destroy the Works of the Devil 1 John 3.8 which all who profess Christianity do agree is Sin And his Name was therefore called Jesus because He should save his People from their Sins Mat. 1.21 Not In their Sins mark that thou Unbelieving Professor Why should this be thought Impossible seeing All things are possible with God Mat. 19.26 It was the Command of the Lord to Abraham Walk before me and be thou perfect Gen. 17.1 And to incourage him thereunto he brings it in with these words I am the Almighty God The holy Apostle said Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the Lusts of the Flesh Gal. 5.16 And I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Phil. 4.13 And As many as are led by the Spirit of God