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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

from others and ask them What you shall do 〈◊〉 be saved how to prepare for Death and Judgment and ●ill you obey the Word of God in their Mouths If you will not do this much nor so much as enquire of those that should teach you nor use the Means which Christ hath established in his Church for your help ●our own Consciences shall one Day witness that you ●ere such as made light of Christ and Salvation If 〈◊〉 of you doubt whether it be your Duty thus to ask ●ounsel of your Teachers as sick Men do of their Phy●●cians let your own Necessities resolve you let God's ●●press Word resolve you see what is said of th●●icst● of the Lord even before Christ's coming when ●uch of their Work did lie in Ceremonials Mal. 2. 5 〈◊〉 My Covenant was with him of Life and Peace and I 〈◊〉 them to him to Levi for the fear wherewith he feared 〈◊〉 and was afraid before my Name The Law of Truth was 〈◊〉 his Mouth and Iniquity was not found in his Lips he walked with me in Peace and Equity and did turn many ●way from Iniquity For the Priests Lips should keep Know●●dg and they should seek the Law at his Mouth for he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hosts Nay you must not only enquire and submit to their Advice but also to their just Reprehensions and Church Censures And without proud Repining submit to the Discipline of Christ in their Hands if it shall be used in the Congregatio●s whereof you are Members 4. Will you for the time to come make Conscience of daily and earnest Prayer to God that you may have a Part in Christ and Salvation do not go out of Doors till you have breathed out these Desires to God do not lie down to rest till you have breathed out these Desires say not God knoweth my Necessity without so often praying for though he do yet he will have you to know them and feel them and exercise your D●sires and all the Graces of his Spirit in these Duties It is he that hath command●d to pray continually though he know your 〈◊〉 without 1 Thess 5. 17. Christ himself spent whole Nights in Prayer and encourageth us to this Course 〈◊〉 18. 1. If you will not be perswaded to this much how can you say that you make not light of Christ and Salvation 5. Will you for the time to come resolvedly cast away your known Sins at the Command of Christ If you have been proud or contentious or malicious and revengeful be so no more If you have been Adulterers or Swearers or Cursers be so no more You cannot hold these and yet set by Christ and Salvation What say you Are you resolved to let them go If not when you know 't is the Will of Christ and he hath told you such shall not enter into his Kingdom do not you make light of him 6. Will you for the time to come serve God in the dearest as well as the cheapest Part of his Service not only with your Tongues but with your Purses and your Deeds shall the Poor find that you see more by Christ than this World shall it appear in any good Uses that God calls you to be liberal in according to your Abilities Pure Religion and undefiled before God is this to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their Affliction Jam. 1. ult Will you resolve to stick to Christ and make sure this Work of Salvation though it cost you all that you have in the World If you think these Terms too dear you make light of Christ and will be judged accordingly 7. Will you for the time to come make much of all things that tend to your Salvation and take every help that God offereth you and gladly make use of all his Ordinances Attend upon his strengthening Sacraments spend the Lord 's own Day in these holy Imployments Instruct your Children and Servants in these things Deut. 5. 6 7. get into good Company that set their Faces Heaven-ward and will teach you the way and help you thither and take heed of the Company of wicked Scorners or foolish voluptuous fleshly Men or any that would hinder you in this Work Will you do these things Or will you shew that you are Slighters of Christ by neglecting them 8. Will you do all this with Delight not as your Toil but as your Pleasure and take it for your highest Honour that you may be Christ's Disciples and may be admitted to serve and worship him and rejoice with holy Confidence in the sufficiency of that Sacrifice by which you may have Pardon of all your Failings and right to the Inheritance of the Saints in light If you will do these things sincerely you will shew that you set by Christ and Salvation else not Dearly Beloved in the Lord I have now done that Work which I came upon what Effect it hath or will have upon your Hearts I know not nor is it any further in my Power to accomplish that which my Soul desireth for you Were it the Lord's Will that I might have my wish herein the Words that you have this Day heard should so stick by you that the Secure should be awakened by them and none of you should perish by the slighting of your Salvation I cannot now follow you to your several Habitations to apply this Word to your particular Necessities but O that I could make every Man's Conscience a Preacher to himself that it might do it which is ever with you that the next time you go prayerless to Bed or about your Business Conscience might cry out Dost thou set no more by Christ and by Salvation that the next time you are tempted to think hardly of an holy and diligent Life I will not say to deride it as more ado th●● needs Conscience might cry out to thee Dost thou set so light by Christ and thy Salvation that the next time you are ready to rush upon known Sin and to please your fleshly Desires against the Command of God Conscience might cry out Is Christ and Salvation no more worth than to cast them away or venture them for thy Lasts that when you are following the World with your most eager ●esires forgetting the World to come and the Change that is a little before you Conscience might ●ry ou● to you Is Christ and Salvation no more worth than so That when you are next spending the Lord's Day in Idleness or vain Sp●rts Conscience might tell you what you are doing In a Word that in all your Neglects of Duty your sti●●ing at the supposed Labour or Cost of a godly Life yea in all your cold and lazy Prayers and Performances Conscience might tell you how unsutable such Endeavours are to the Reward and that Christ and Salvation should not be so slighted I will say no more but this at t●is time it is a thousand Pities that when God hath provided a Saviour for the World and when Christ hath suffered so much for their Sins and made so full a Satisfaction to Justice and purchased so glorious a Kingdom for his Saints and all this is offered so freely to Sinners to lost unworthy Sinners even for nothing that yet so many Millions should everlastingly perish because they make light of their Saviour and Salvation and prefer the vain World an● their Lusts b●fore them I have delivered my Message the Lord open your Hearts to receive it I have perswa●ded you with the Word of Truth and Soberness th● Lord perswade you more effectually or else all this i● lost FINIS Advertisement A Scriptural and Rational Account of the Christian Religion particularly concerning Justification only by the Propitiation and Redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ By Sir Edward Harley Knight of the Bath Printed for J. Luntley at the Bibles in Little Lincolns Inn-fields

Hearts soundly humbled in the Sense of their Condition if this were done they would soon be brough● to value a Saviour A truly broken Heart can no mo● make light of Christ and Salvation than a hungr● Man of his Food or a sick Man of the Means th● would give him case but till then our Wo●● cannot have Access to their Hearts While 〈◊〉 and Misery is made light of Christ and Salvati●● will be made light of but when these are perceiv● an intolerable Burden then nothing will serve the 〈◊〉 but Christ Till Men be truly humbled they 〈◊〉 venture Christ and Salvation for a Lust for a lit● worldly Gain even for less than nothing but wh● God hath illuminated them and broken their Hea● then they would give a World for a Christ then th● must have Christ or they die all things then are Loss 〈◊〉 Dung to them in regard of the excellent Knowledg of 〈◊〉 Phil. 3. 8. When they are once pricked in their Hear● for Sin and Misery then they cry out Men and Breth● what shall we do Acts 2. 37. When they are awake●●ed by God's Judgments as the poor Jaylor 〈◊〉 16. 29. then they cry out Sirs what shall I do to 〈◊〉 saved This is the Reason why God will bring Men 〈◊〉 low by Humiliation before he bring them to Salvat●●● 9. Men take occasion to make light of Christ 〈◊〉 the Commonness of the Gospel because they do hear 〈◊〉 it every Day the frequency is an Occasion to dull th● Affections I say an Occasion for it is no just Cau● Were it a Rarity it might take more with them 〈◊〉 now if they hear a Minister preach nothing but th● saving Truths they say We have these every Day the make not light of their Bread or Drink their Hea● or Life because they possess them every day they ma● not light of the Sun because it shineth every day least they should not for the Mercy is the greater 〈◊〉 Christ and Salvation are made light of because th● hea● of them often This is say they a good plain 〈◊〉 Se●mon Pea●ls are trod in the dirt where they are 〈◊〉 they loath this dry Manna Prov. 27. 7. The ●ull Soul loaths the Hony-comb but to the Hungry Soul ●very bitter thing is sweet 10. Christ and Salvation are made light of because of this disjunctive Presumption either that he is sure enough theirs already and God that is so merciful and ●hrist that hath suff●red so much for them is surely resolved to save them or else it may easily be obtained at ●ny time if it be not yet so A conceited Facility to ●ave a part in Christ and Salvation at any time doth occasion Men to make light of them It is true that Grace is free and the Offer is universal according to ●he extent of the preaching of the Gospel and it is ●rue that Men may have Christ when they will that is when they are willing to have him on his Terms but he that hath promised thee Christ if thou be willing hath not promised to make thee willing and if thou art not willing now how canst thou think thou shalt be willing hereafter If thou canst make thine own Heart willing why is it not done now Can you do it better when Sin hath more hardned it and God may have given thee over to thy felf O Sinners you might do much though you are not able of your selves to come in if you would now subject your selves to the working of the Spirit and set in while the Gales of Grace continue But did you know what a hard and impossible thing it is to be so much as willing to have Christ and Grace when the Heart is given over to it self and the Spirit hath withdrawn its former Invitations you would not be so confident of your own Strength to believe and repent nor would you make light of Christ upon such foolish Confidence If indeed it be so easy a Matter as you imagine for a Sinner to believe and repent at any time how comes it to pass that it is done by so few but most of the World do perish in their Impenitency when they have all the Helps and Means that we can afford them It is true the thing is very reasonable and easy in it self to a pure Nature but while Man is blind and dead these things are in a sort impossible to him which are never so easy to others It is the easiest and sweetest Life in the World to a gracious Soul to live in the Love of God and the delightful Thoughts of the Life to come where all their Hope and Happiness lieth But to worldly carnal Hearts it is as easy to remove a Mountain as to bring them to this However these Men are their own Condemners for 〈◊〉 they think it so easy a Matter to repent and believe and so to have Christ and Right to Salvation then have they no excuse for neglecting this which they thought so easy O wretched impenitent Soul what mean you to say when God shall ask you Why did you not repent and love your Redeemer above the World when you thought it 〈◊〉 easy that you could do it at any time IV. Vse 1. We come now to the Application And hence you may be informed of the Blindness and Folly of all carnal Men how contemptible are their Judgments that think Christ and Salvation contemptible and how littl● Reason there is why any should be moved by them or discouraged by any of their Scorns or Contradictions How shall we sooner know a Man to be a Fool than if he knows no difference between Dung and Gold Is there such a thing as madness in the Word if that Man be not mad that sets light by Christ and his own Salvation while he daily toils for the Dung of the Earth And yet what pity is it to see that a Company of poor ignorant Souls will be ashamed of Godliness if such Men as these do but deride them Or will think hardly of a holy Life if such as these do speak against it Hearers if you see any set light by Christ and Salvation do you set light by that Man's Wit and by his Words and hear the Reproaches of a holy Life as you would hear the Words of a Mad-man not with regard but with a Compassion of his Misery Vse 2. What wonder if we and our preaching be despised and the best Ministers complain of ill success when the Ministry of the Apostles themselves did succeed no better What wonder if for all that we can say or do our Hearers still set light by Christ and their own Salvation when the Apostles Hearers did the same They that did second their Doctrines by Miracles If any Men could have shaken and torn in pieces the Hearts of Sinners they could have done it If any could have laid them at their Feet and made them all cry out as some What shall we do it would have been they You may