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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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way to him Repress wrath and hate unpeaceable Counsels Our way and our time must be only Gods way and time Self-saving men are usually the destroyers of themselves and others Peter that drew his Sword for Christ denied him the same Night with Oaths and Curses Fools trust themselves and Wise Men trust God Fools tear the Tree by beating down the Fruit that 's unripe and harsh and Wise men stay till it is ripe and sweet and will drop into their hands Fools rip up the Mother for an untimely Birth but Wise Men stay till Maturity give it them Fools take red hot Iron to be Gold till it burn their Fingers to the Bone They rush into Seditions and Blood as if it were a matter of jest but Wise Men sow the fruit of righteousness in peace and as much as in them lieth live peaceably with all men All men are mortal both oppressours and oppressed Stay a little and mortality will change the Scene Gods time is best Martyrdom seldome killeth the hundredth part so many as Wars do And he is no true believer that taketh Martyrdom to be his loss And Christ is more interessed in his Gospel Church and Honour than we Queen Maries cruelties and the Bishops bonefires made Religion universally received the more easily when her short Reign was ended We may learn wit of the Fool that seeing great Guns and Musquets ask'd what they were to do and the answerer said to kill men saith he Do not men die here without killing In our Country they will die of themselves VIII Be sure that you keep up Family Religion especially in the careful Education of youth Keep them from evil company and from temptations and especially of idleness fullness and baits of lust Read the Scripture and good Books and call upon God and sing his Praise And recreate youth with reading the History of the Church and the Lives of Holy Men and Martyrs instruct them in Catechisms and Fundamentals IX Above all live in Love to God and Man and let not selfishness and worldliness prevail against it Think of Gods goodness as equal to his Greatness and Wisdom and take your selves as Members of the same Body with all true Christians Blessed are they that faithfully practise those three grand principles which all profess viz. 1. To love God as God above all and so to obey him 2. To love our Neighbours as our selves 3. And to do as we would be done by Love is not envious malignant censorious it slandereth not it persecuteth not it oppresseth not it defraudeth not it striveth not to gain by anothers loss Get Men once to love their Neighbours as themselves and you may easily prognosticate peace quietness and concord happiness to the Land and Salvation to the peoples Souls Finally Brethren live in love and the God of love and peace shall be among you The Lord save you from the evils of which I have here and often warned you Remember with thankfulness the many years of abundant mercy which we have enjoyed tho too much mixt with our sins and vilified by some 1 Thes 5.11 12 13. Comfort your selves together and edify one another even as also ye do and I beseech you Brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and to esteem them very highly in Love for their work sake and be at peace among your selves And the Lord deeply write on all your Hearts these blessed words 1 Joh. 4.16 We have known and believed the Love that God hath to us God is Love and he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God and God in him And remember 2 Pet. 3.11 12 13. Seeing all these things shall be dissolved what manner of Persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness looking for and hasting to the coming of the day of God wherein the Heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth righteousness I need not lengthen my Counsels further to you now having been called by the Will and Providence of God to leave behind me a multitude of Books which may remember you of what you heard and acquaint the world what Doctrine I have taught you And if longer studies shall teach me to retract and amend any failings in the writings or practice of my unripe and less experienced age as it will be to my self as pleasing as the cure of any Bodily Disease I hope it will not seem strange or ungrateful to you Though we must hold fast the truth which we have received both you and I are much to be blamed if we grow not in knowledge both in Matter Words and Method The Lord grant that also we may grow in Faith Obedience Patience in Hope Love and desire to be with Christ Now the God of Peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus that great shepherd of the sheep through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen Heb. 13.20 21. FINIS These Books following are lately Printed for and Sold by B. Simmons at the Three Golden Cocks at the West end of Pauls A Full Treatise of Episcopacy for the Primitive sort only Poetical fragments Heart Imployment with God and it self The Concordant Discord of a broken healed heart Sorrowing rejoycing fearing hoping dying living By Richard Baxter in Octavo Price bound 1 s. Of the Immortality of Mans Soul and the nature of it and other Spirits Two Discourses one in a Letter to an unknown doubter the other in a reply to Dr. Henry Moors Animadversions on a private Letter to him which he published in his Second Edition of Mr. Joseph Glanvils Saducismus Triumphatus or History of Aparitions By Richard Baxter in Octavo Price bound 1 s. 6 d. Richard Baxters Dying Thoughts upon Phil. 1.23 written for his own use in the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness in Octavo Price bound 2 s. 6 d. Aâ—ditions to the Poetical fragments of Richard Baxter written for himself and communicated to such as are more for serious Verse than smooth in Octavo Price stitcht 6 d. Truth and Peace promoted Or a Guide to young Christians in the way of Salvation past the danger of errors and difficulties of curiosity In a familiar Dialogue between a Minister of Christ and a devout private Christian With an Appendix concerning the length of a Sabbath days Journey By Adam Martingdale a Minister of the Gospel in Cheshire Price bound 6 d. Isa 30.20 Heb. 12. from v. 1. to 〈…〉 1 Cor. 13.3 Matth. 5.10 11 12. Eph. 4.18 19. 1 Cor. 15. John 3.6 Prov. 7.22 23. Rev. Luke 14.28 33. Rom. 8.17 18. Tim. 2 Cor. 4.18 Mat. 6.20 21. Col. 3.1 2 â— 4. Luke 22.44 Luk. 8.37 Math. 25.41 Mat. 7.23 Luk. 13.27 1 Pet. 1.6 7 9. Ps 119.67.75 Ps 129.1 2 3. Isa 49.13 Psal 18.27 2 Pet. 24. Jude 6. * Or as Amyraldus Paraphras Cum olim evigilabunt praesens eorum felicitas erit instar somnii quod somno discusso dissipatum est quin etiam antequam evigilent in ipsa illa urbe in qua antea florebant vanam istam felicitatis poâ—pam in qua antea volitabant reddes contemnendam tanquam umbram aut imaginem evanescenteâ— in qua nihil solidi est * Nubecula est cito evanescit said Athanasius of Julian When Julian's death was told at Antioch they all cried out Maxime fatue ubi sunt vaticinia tua Vicit Deus Christus ejus Abbas Vrspargens pag. 91. Gen. 4.7 Numb 32.23 Heb. 11.25 26 c. Ps 9.7 8. Psal 43.2 3 4. Mat. 27.43