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woman_n	bruise_v	heel_n	serpent_n	2,564	5	9.8176	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26967	Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and the opposers and neglecters convinced by the light of Scripture and reason / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1320; ESTC R11592	92,411	266

your Gain The time of market for your souls and of laying up a treasure in Heaven and setting your money to the most gainful Usury and of making you friends of the mammon of unrighteousness furthering your salvation by that which hindereth other mens occasioneth their perdition As you have opportunity do good to all men but especially to them of the houshold of faith Gal. 6. 6 7 8 9 12. Cast thy bread upon the waters for thou shalt find it after many dayes Give a portion to seven and to eight for thou knowest not what evil may be upon the earth Eccles 11. 1 2. In the morning sow thy seed and in the evening withhold not thy hand for thou knowest not whether shall prosper this or that or whether they both shall be alike good v. 6. Withhold not good from them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thy hand to do it say not to thy neighbour Go and come again and to morrow I will give when thou hast it by thee Prov. 3. 27 28. Lay up a foundation for the time to come do good before thy heart be hardened thy riches blasted consumed thy opportunities taken away part with it before it part with thee Remember it must be Now or Never There is no working in the Grave 5. Hath God intrusted you with Power or Interest by which you may promote his honour in the world relieve the oppressed restrain the rage of impious malice Hath he made you Governours and put the sword of Justice into your hands up then and be doing with your might Defend the innocent protect the servants of the Lord cherish them that do well be a terror to the wicked encourage the strictest obedience to the universal Governor discountenance the breakers of his Laws Look not to be reverenced or obeyed before him or more carefully then he openly maintain his Truth and worship without fear or shame Deal gently and tenderly with his lambs and little ones Search after vice that you may succesfully suppress it Hate those temptations that would draw you to man-pleasing temporizing remisness or countenancing sin but especially those that would ensnare you in a controversie with Heaven in quarrels against the ways of Holiness or in that selfconfounding sin of abusing and opposing the people that are most careful to please the Lord. Your trust is great so is your advantage to do good And how great will be your account how dreadful if you be unfaithful As you signifie more then hundreds or thousands of the meaner sort and your actions do most good or hurt so you must expect to be accordingly dealt with when you come to the impartial final judgement Befriend the Gospel as the Charter of your everlasting priviledges Own those that Christ hath told you he will own Use them as men that are ready to hear Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my Brethren you did it unto me Mat. 25. Know not a wicked person but let your eyes be on the faithful of the land that they may dwel therein and lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty Psal 101. 1. Tim. 2. 2. Let those that work the work of the Lord be with you without fear 1 Cor. 16. 10. Remember that it is the Character of a Pharisee and Hypocrite to see the mote of the non-observance of a Ceremony or tradition or smaller matter of difference in Religion in their Brothers eye and not to see the beam of hypocrisie injustice and malicious cruel opposition of Christ and his Disciples in their own eyes And that its the brand of them that please not God that are filling up their sins on whom Gods wrath is coming to the utmost to persecute the servants of the Lord forbidding them to Preach to the people that they might be saved 1 Thess 2. 15 16. Learn well the second and the hundred and first Psalm And write these sentences on your walls and doors as an Antidote against that self-undoing sin Mat. 18. 6. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the Sea Zach. 2. 8. He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye Rom. 14. 1 2. and 15. 1. Him that is weak in the faith receive you but not to doubtful disputations For God hath received him Mat. 10. 40 41 42. He that receiveth you receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me He that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous mans reward And whoso shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a Disciple Verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward If you love not the Godly love your selves so far as to such self-love is possible wound not your own hearts to make their fingers bleed Damn not your souls and that by the surest nearest way that you may hurt their bodies Provoke not God to thrust you from his presence and deny your suits by your dealing so with them stop not your own mouths when your misery will bespeak your lowdest cryes for mercy by your stopping the mouths of the servants of the Lord and refusing to hear their requests for justice If you have the Serpents enmity against the womans seed you must expect the Serpents doom Your heads will be bruised when you have bruised their heels Gen. 3. 15. Kick not against the pricks Acts 9. Let not bryars and thorns set themselves in battel against the Lord lest he go therefore through them burn them together Isa 27. 4. I speak not any of this by way of accusation or dishonorable reflexion on the Magistrate Blessed be God that hath given us the comfort of your defence But knowing what the Tempter aimeth at and where it is that your danger lieth by what means the rulers of the earth have been undone faithfulness commandeth me to tell you of the snare and to set before you good evil as ever I would escape the guilt of betraying you by flattery or cruel and cowardly silence And especially when your Magistracy is but annual or for a short time it concerneth you to be doing with your might It is but this year or short space of time that you have to do this special service in Lose this and lose all By what men on earth should God be eminently served honoured if not by Magistrates whom he hath eminently advanced impowred and intrusted With considerate foresight seriously ask your selves the question Are you willing to hear at the day of your accounts that you had but one year or a few to do God special service in and that you knew this and yet would not do it Can your hearts bear

your Application or private discourses unsay all this again and give God and your selves the Lye And let people see that the Pulpit is to you but as a Stage and that you believe not what you speak 7. Consider that your place and calling maketh you the most successfull servants of the Devil and so the most bloody murderers of Souls while you give your judgement against a strict and Heavenly life For a Drunkaod in an Ale-house to mock the Minister and rail at serious Religion is less regarded by sober men and small advantage to his Masters cause nay the wickedness of his life is so great a shame to his judgement that it inclineth many to think well of those that he speaks against But when a man that pretendeth to learning and understanding and to be himself a Pastor of the Church and Preacher of the Misteries of Christ shall make them odious that are most careful for their Souls and most exact in pleasing God and shall make all serious diligence for Heaven to seem but intemperate zeal and selfconceitedness and shall describe a Saint as if the formal lifeless Hypocrite that giveth God but the leavings of the world and never set his heart on Heaven were indeed the man what a snare is here for the perdition of the ignorant They that are naturally averse from holiness and are easily perswaded to think that to be unnecessary or bad which seems so much above them and against them will be much confirmed in their mistakes and misery when they hear their Teachers speak without them the fame that Satan by his suggestions doth within them This turneth a trembling sinner into a hardened scorner he that before went under the daily correction of his conscience for neglecting God and omitting holy duties and living to the flesh grows bold and fearless when he hears the Preacher disgrace the stricter purer way By that time he hath heard a while the fear of God derided as preciseness and a tender conscience reproached as a scrupulous foolish thing his conscience grows more plyable to his lusts and hath little more to say against them When Gods own professed Ministers that should be wiser and better then the people are against this zeal and industry for Heaven the people will soon think that at least it is tolerable in them And they will sooner learn to deride a Saint from a Sermon or discourse of a Preacher or a learned man then from the scorns or talk of hundreds of the ignorant And wilt thou teach them to hate Godliness who hast undertaken before the Righteous God to teach them to practice it He that dispraiseth it though under other names and representeth it as odious though masked with the title of some odious vice doth indeed endeavour to make men hate it And what a terrible account wilt thou have to make when the seduction and transgression of all these sinners shall be charged upon thee When Christ shall say to the haters deriders and opposers of his holy wayes and servants In as much as you did it to one of the least of these my Brethren you did it unto me How durst you scorn the image of your Maker and hate the Saints whose Communion you professed to believe and deride or oppose that serious holiness without which you had no hope of being saved If then the sinners become your accusers and say Lord we thought it had been but unnecessary preciseness and that serious Christians had been but self-conceited factious hypocrites and that lip service with a common worldly life might have served the turn We heard our Preachers represent such strict and zealous men as turbulent seditious and refractory as odious and not as imitable Their application was against them Their discourse derided them Of them we learnt it We thought they were wiser and better then we Of whom should we learn but of our teachers Wo to the Teachers that ever they were born that must be then found guilty of this crime If Adam 's excuse was Eve's accusation The woman which thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the tree and I did eat And the womans excuse did charge the Serpent The Serpent begulled me and I did eat Gen. 3. 12 13. though it freed not the excusers How will it load you when your people shall say The Teachers that we thought thou gavest us did teach us go before us in setting against this holy diligence and we did but learn of them and follow them 8. Are not the people backward enough to the serving of God with all their might unless you hinder them Is not the corrupted heart of lapsed man averse enough to the matters of salvation but you must make them worse If you had to do with the best and holiest person in the world that walketh with God in the most heavenly conversation he would tell you that his dull and backward heart hath no need of clogs and pull-backs and discouragements but of all the help that can be afforded him to quicken him up to greater diligence The most zealous lament that they are so cold The most heavenly lament that they are so earthly and so strange to heaven The most laborious lament that they are so sloathful and the fruitfullest believers that they are so unprofitable and those that are most watchful of their words and deeds that they are so careless and those that most diligently redeem their time lament it that they lose so much and those that walk most accurately and exactly that they are so loose and keep no closer to the Rule And yet darest thou increase the backwardness of the ungodly will not their carnal interests and lusts serve turn to keep them from a holy life Is not Satan strong enough of himself will not the comon distaste of Godliness in the world sufficiently prejudice and avert them without thy helps Do you see your people so forward to do too much for Heaven that you must pull them back Cannot souls be damned without your furtherance or is it a desirable work and will it pay you for your cost and labour The way is up hill The best of us are weak and frequently ready to sit down A thousand impediments are cast before us by Satan and the world to make us linger till the time be past and many a charm of pleasure and diversion to make us sleep till the door be shut And Ministers are sent to keep us waking and take us by the hand and lead us on and remove impediments and shall they set in with the enemy and be our chiefest hinderers O treacherous guides O miserable helps Are not our dark understandings our earthly dull and backward hearts our passions and troubled affections our appetites sensual inclinations our natural strangeness and averseness to God and heaven and holiness enough to hinder us without you Are not all the temptations of the Devil the allurements of the flesh and world the impediments