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A76168	Englands warning-piece. To all sleepy secure sinners, Or, The true Christians subjection to Christ as their King and Saviour. Plainly and powerfully setting forth to the heart and conscience, of all careless secure sinners, their great folly and madness in refusing to submit to Jesus Christ as he is tendered in the Gospel. : With many cogent arguments and reasons to perswade all persons to come into Christ for salvation, now in the day of their visitation, before the fire of his wrath be kindled upon them, and the gates of Heaven be shut against them, and they perish for ever. : With some rules and directions how we may attain true happiness. / Gathered from the painful labours of Mr. Richard Baxter, being the substance of a sermon ; Lycensed and entred according to order.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1258A; ESTC R172645	9,382	24

way to Christ or means to partake of him than by Fatih it is this Faith or accep●ation of Christ for our Saviour and King which is here called kissing the Son applying and appropriating to our selves the person righteousness and benefits procured and offered but not the least honour of the work all we do is but to accept what Christ hath procured and that must be by the special assistance of his Holy Spirit 4. Why no priviledge or power in the word can save them that doth not kiss the Son it might here suffice that I have shew'd you God's determination to the contrary but further consider if any should hope to escape by their Friends Strength or other Endowments or Virtuous qualifications 1. The must resist the unresistable will of God they must do that which Heaven or Earth men or Devils were never able yet to do they have resisted his Laws and love but they could never resist his Power where dwelleth that man or what is his name that did neglect Christ and yet escaped damnation Job 9 chap. 4 verse who hath hardned himself against him and hath prospered 2. He that will save the soul that loveth not dependeth not and subjecteth not himself to Christ must first make false the word of God and make the faithful and true God a lyer for God hath given it under his hand for a truth that he that beleiveth not is condemned already Joh. 3. ch verse 18. that he shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him John 3 chap. ver 36. that those that are invited and make light of Christ shall never tast of his Supper that is shall be more easy for Sodom in the day of judgement than for that City which refuseth the offers of the Gospel Matt. 10. ver 15. Those that would not have Christ Reign over them shall be brought forth at last and destroyed before him as his Enemies Luke 19. That they shall all be damned that beleive not the Truth but have pleasure in unrightroussness 2. Thess 2. chap. 12. ver Hath the Almighty sayed thus and who dare say it shall not be Thus you see his task that will undertake to save one neglector of Christ. Vse 1. You hear by the Text how you are like to speed at the Bar of Christ who shall dye and who shall live the great Assize is near at hand the feet of the Judge is at the dore go thy way unbeleiving sinner when thou hast had all the pleasure that sin can afford thee the rousing voice will awake thee after thou hast lain in dust and flep a while and thine Eyes shall see that dreadful day oh blessed oh doleful day blessed to the Saints doleful to the wicked oh the triumphant shoutings of the joyful Saints the hideous roaring cryes of the damned when each man hath received his doom there is nothing but Eternal glory and eternal fire You must all of you shortly appear and hear what doom must pass upon you I hope you beleive it What would you now give to know for certain how it will then go with you why here is the book by which you must be judged and here is the summ of it in my Text and the grounds upon which the Judge will then proceed will you but go along with me and answer the questions I shall put to you you may know your doom And here you must know that it is the Kiss of the Heart and not of Lips which we must here inquire after the questions will not be at the great day of Doom who hath spake Christ fair or who hath called themselves Christians or who hath said the Creed or Lord's Prayer oftnest or cryed Lord Lord or come to Church or hath held this opinion or who that It would make a mans heart ake to think how Zealous men honour the shadow of Christ bow at his name reverence the Image of the Cross he dyed on and the Reliques and names of the Saints that dyed for him yet do utterly neglect the Lord himself and resist his spirit and cannot endure to be governed by him and hate them that really love him and yet believe themselves to be real Christians For God's sake sirs do not delude your immortal Souls as to think your Baptism and your outward Devotion and your good meanings as you call them and your righteous dealing with men will serve the turn to prove you Christians Alass this is but with Judas to kiss the mouth of Christ. And indeed to fetch your death from those blessed lips from whence the Saints did fetch their life I will shew you some surer signs than these 1. Let me a little inquire into your subjection to Christ do you remember the time when you were the servants of Sin and Satan and led captive at his will and all within you was in carnal peace do you remember when the spirit in the word came powerfully upon your hearts and bound Satan and cast him out and answered all your carnal wisdome and brought you out of darkness into light and from the power of Satan unto God Acts 26. chap. 18 vers Hath Christ the only Soveraignty in your Souls is his word thy Law which thou darst not pass doth it bind thy thoughts unto thy tongue and command all thou hast hast thou laid down all at the feet of Christ and resigned all to his will and devoted allto his dispose and service dost thou dayly and spiritually worship him in private and in thy Family and teach thy children and servants to fear the Lord I intreat you Sirs deal truly and faithfully in answering these questions for never man was saved by the bare title of a Christian if you are not subject to Christ you are not Christians no more then a picture or a carkass is a man and your Salvation will be such as your Christianity is Subjection is an undoubted part of thy faith and Obedience is its fruit In short then dost thou make him thy fear and tremble at his word and be willing to do or suffer any thing for his sake as the Sword Fire Nakedness Displeasure of friends Credit or Life art thou willing to submit to all that he revealeth dost thou say speak Lord for thy servant heareth Lord what wouldst thou have me to do I am ready to do thy will O God Beloved this is the frame of every servant of Christ and this is the acknowledging and accepting of him for your Lord. Dost thou take him for thy only Saviour and truly beleive this history of his Life and Passion the truth of his Divine and humane nature his Resurrection his Office and his approaching Judgement dost thou see that all thy supposed Righteousness is but Vanity and sin and that thou art not able to make the least satisfaction to the Law by thy works or sufferings and if his blood did not wash thee and his Righteousness justify thee thou must certainly be damned yet and

Englands Warning-piece 1 Cor. 6 chap. 19. 20. ver And ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in you spirit which are Gods Englands Warning-piece To all sleepy secure Sinners OR The true Christians Subjection to Christ as their King and Saviour Plainly and Powerfully setting forth to the Heart and Conscience of all Careless secure Sinners their great Folly and Madness in refusing to submit to Jesus Christ as he is tendered in the Gospel With many Cogent Arguments and Reasons to perswade all persons to come into Christ for Salvation now in the day of their Visitation before the fire of his wrath be kindled upon them and the Gates of Heaven be shut against them and they perish for ever With some Rules and Directions how we may attain true Happiness 2 Cor. 5 chap. 11 verse Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we perswade men Gathered from the painful labours of Mr. Richard Baxter being the substance of a Sermon Lycensed and Entred according to Order Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven in Duck-Lane 1678. The true Christians subjection to Christ the only way to Salvation Psalm 2. 11. and 12 Verses Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Kiss the Son least he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him THe chief scope of the Psalm is to foretel the Extent and prevalency of the Kingdome of Christ admonishing his Enemies to submit to his Government deriding the vanity of their opposing projects and fury and forewarning them of their ruine if they come not in I shall draw the scope of the Text into this one Doctrine No power or priviledge can save that man from the fearful sudden consuming wrath of God that doth not unfainedly love depend upon and subject himself unto the Lord Jesus Christ In handling of this point I shall observe ●… order First I will shew you what this Love Dependency and Subjection are Secondly what wrath it is that will thus kindle and consume them Thirdly why this Kissing the Son is the only way to escape it Fourthly why no power or priviledge else can procure their escape Fifthly Application First Subjection to Christ is the acknowledging of his absolute Soveraignty both as he is God Creatour and as a Redeemer over all the world and particularly our selves and a hearty consent to this his Soveraignty especially that he be our Lord and his Laws our Rule and a delivering our selves to be governed accordingly Secondly this Dependency on Christ is when we acknowledge the sufficiency of his satisfaction and his power and willingness to save all that receive him in his free universal offer in the Gospel we do heartily accept him for our only Saviour and accordingly renouncing all other do wait upon him beleivingly for the benefits of his Sufferings and Office and the performance of his ●●●…hful covenant to us in restoring us to all the ●●●…ings which we lost and advancing us to a far ●…ater everlasting glory Thirdly this Affection to Christ is when in the knowledge and sence of his love to us both common and especial and of his own excellency and the blessedness of enjoying of him and the Father and life by him our hearts do chuse him and the Father by him as our only happiness and accordingly love him above all things in the world These threefold descriptions containeth the summ of the Gospel so hath it nothing but what is of necessity to sound Christianity Secondly what wrath is it that will thus kindle and consume them as there are two Covenants so each hath his proper penalty for its breaking 1. Then till men do come in and submit to Christ they lye under the wrath of God for all their sins as they are against the Covenant of works or they are lyable to the curse of that Covenant Christ's death hath taken away the curse of the Covenant not absolutely from any man but conditionally which becomes absolute when the condition is performed the Elect themselves are not by nature under the Covenant of Grace but remain under the curse of the first Covenant till they come into Christ 2. Whosoever rejecteth or neglecteth this Grace and so finally breaketh the new Covenant must also bear the curse or the penalty thereof besides all the former which will be a greater curse even as the blessings of this Covenant are far greater than those of the first It was a heavy punishment to be cast out of Paradise from the presence of God and to be cursed by him and subject to Eternal death and all creatures below cursed for our sakes to bear all those curses and Plagues threatned in Duteronomy 27. ch 26. verse Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them and all the people shall say Amen See Deut. 29. chap. 20 verse Heb. 10. Chap. 28. 29. verses He that despised Moses Law ayed without mercy c. Of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace 3. Why this kissing the Son that is loving depending on and submitting to him is the only way to escape these curses I answer First the proper Reason that can be given is The will of the great Law giver who hath absolute power over us might dispose of us as he pleases and make us such Laws and conditions as seem best to his wisdome upon which our justification and salvation should depend he bath resolved that this shall be the only condition and way And that as no man shall be justified by a meer Christ or his death abstracted from Faith that is of Age or Reason so this Faith shall be the condition upon which they shall be justified or as a Christ neglected shall save no man so the accepting or receiving of him shall justify and save them as the condition of the Covenant performed under which notion it is that faith justifieth The Reasons from the former are 1. From the Equity it is but equal that he that hath bought us so dearly and from a stare so desperate and deplorable should be acknowledged and accepted for our Saviour and Lord. 1 Cor. 6. cha 19. 20. verses And yea are not your own for ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods Rom. 14. chapter 9. verse For to this end Christ both dyed and rose again that he might rule over both quick and dead 2. As salvation by free grace through Christ is away most suitable to God's honour and to our own necessities as we could not have a more fitter way to the Father than by Christ so neither could there be a fitter

perish for ever do thou therefore cast thy self into his Arms and venter thy everlasting state upon him and trust him with thy Soul and fetch all thy help and healing from him dost thou so build upon his promise of an happiness hereafter that thou canst let all go here and drink of His cap and be Baptised with his Baptism and lose thy life upon his promise that thou shalt save it why this is kissing the hand of Christ Beloved I profess to you all in the name of the Lord that it is not your bold and confident affirming that you love Christ which will serve your turn when Christ shall judge he will search deep and judge according to truth in the inward parts How many thousand will perish then as his utter Enemies that verily thought themselves his friends How easily might they now find their mistake would they now examine themselves Oh try try Sirs before God try you judge your selves before Christ jugeth you it would grieve a mans heart that knows what it is to love Christ to beleive and be subject to him to see how rare these are in the world Vse the 2d It is time to turn my speech to Exhortation and oh that you would encourage me with a Resolution to obey my business is as a Herauld to proclaim the Lord Jesus your King and Saviour and to know whether you will acknowledge and take him to be so or not and to perswade you to kiss the Son least his wrath be kindled against you you will say this is a common Errand I know the name of Christ is common the Swearer doth swear by it the Begger begs by it the Charmer puts it into his Charms and the Jester in his Jests and many Papists and ignorant Protestants do mutter it oft-times over their Prayers but who trembleth at or triumpheth in it who maketh it his fear and joy and give up their souls to be governed by Christ I do hear solemnly proclaim to you that the Lord Jesus will not be put off with complements he cares not for your meer name of Christianity your Cap or Knee if your Heart be not set upon him thou art none of his you must depend on him alone for Soul and Body or never look for mercy at his hands He is the Author of Eternal salvation to them only that obey him Hebrews 5 chap. 9 ver What say you sirs in answer to my message what do you resolve upon shall Christ be your love and your Lord or not will you kiss the Son or will you slight him still methinks you should easily be resolved and say Away with Credit Plcasure Profits away with these bewitching Delights and vanities Christ has bought my heart and he shall have it he is my Lord and I will be ruled by him I perswade you not to Opinions or Factions but to be with all your heart for Christ as ever you look Christ should be for you to love him as he that hath bought you from everlasting wrath and dyed to save you from Eternal Burnings to lay hold of him with most earnest affectionate Apprehension as a man that is ready to be drowned would do upon a bough or the hand of his friend that would pull him to the shore to do nothing till thou hast asked counsel at his word these are the things I exhort you to these are things that Christ expects from you Think of what I say and weigh it if I speak not Truth and Reason reject it and spare not but if it be and thy Conscience tell thee so take heed then how thou dost neglect it or reject it least thou be found a fighter against the Spirit of God I will draw these considerations only from the Text. 1. Thou art else a Rebel against thy Soveraign Lord this I gather from the command in my Text and the whole Psalm God hath given thee into the hands of his Son and made him Lord and King of all and commanded all to submit to him and accept of him who can shew such right to rule thee as Christ can do he is thy maker and so is not Satan he dearly bought thee so did not the world 1 Pet. 1 ch v. 18. Thou wast not Redeemed with Silver and Gold and corruptible things from your vain conversations I make this challenge in the behalf of Christ let any thing in the world step forth and shew a better Title to thee to thy heart and to thy life than Christ can shew then let them take thy heart but I know thou canst not but confess it yet will thou not yield him thy Love and chiefest Obedience out of thy own mouth then art thou condemned as a wilful Rebel 2. To deny thy Love and Subjection to Christ is a most barbarous unkindness a sinner can be guilty of did he pitty thee in thy lost Estate and take thee up when thou wast wounded in the way and make thee a Plaister of the blood of his heart and is this thy requital did he come down from Heaven to Earth to seek thee when thou wast lost and take upon him all thy Debt and put himself into the Prison of the world and flesh and paid for thy folly born the wrath of God which thou must have suffered for ever and doth he not deserve to be entertained with most affectionate respect but with a few cold thoughts instead of hearty love and a few formal words instead of Worship Oh let the Heavens blush at such ingratitude Me thinks you should rather wonder with your selves that ever Christ should give you leave to love him and say Will the Lord eudure such a wretch to kiss him will he suffer himself to be embraced by those arms which hath been so often defiled by the imbracements of sin will he honour me so highly as to be his Subject and Servant to be guided by such a blessed and perfect Law and doth require no harder conditions then these for my Salvation Take then my Heart O Lord it is only thine and oh that it were better take it and make it better the Spear hath made a passage to thy heart O let thy spirit upon me make a passage to mine I dare challenge Earth and Hell and all the Enemies of Christ in both to shew the least hurt that ever he caused to the Soul of a beleiver or wrong to the soul of any and must he have such a stir to do thee good must he beseech thee to be happy and follow thee with intreaties and yet art thou like a stock that neither hears nor feels nay dost not thou murmur against him as if he would do thee a mischief Ah foolish Sinner it is sin would hurt thee and not thy Saviour why dost not thou strive against that it is the Divel that would destroy thee yet dost not grudge thy obedience to him be judge thy self whether this be equal dealing Sinner I beseech thee in behalf of thy poor Soul