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A26936	The grand question resolved, what we must do to be saved instructions for a holy life / by the late Reverend Divine, Mr. Richard Baxter ; recommended to the bookseller a few days before his death to be immediately printed for the good of souls.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1692 (1692)	Wing B1279; ESTC R14371	33,250	49

But who hath hardened himself against thee and hath prospered The whole Creation proclaimeth thy Perfection But it is Heaven where the Blessed see thy Glory and the Glory of our Redeemer where the Angels and Saints behold thee admire thee adore thee love thee and praise thee with triumphant joyful Songs the Holy Holy Holy God the Father Son and Holy Ghost who was and is and is to come Of Thee and through Thee and to Thee are all things To Thee be Glory for ever Amen A short Prayer for Families MOst Glorious Ever-living God Father Son and Holy Ghost Infinite in thy Power Wisdom and Goodness Thou art the Creator of all the World the Redeemer of lost Mankind and the Sanctifier of thine Elect. Thou hast made us living reasonable Soul● placed a while on Earth in Flesh to seek and know and love and serve thee which we should have done with all our Soul and Might For we and all things are Thine own and Thou art more to us than all the World This should have been the greatest Busines● Care and Pleasure of our Lives We were bound to 〈◊〉 by thy Law and invited by thy Love and Mercy and the Promise of a Reward in Heaven And in our Baptism we were devoted to this Christian Life of Faith and Holiness by a solemn Covenant and Vow But with Grief and Shame we do confess that we have been too unfaithful to that Covenant and too much neglected the Lord our Father our Saviour and our Sanctifier to whom we were devoted And have too much served the Flesh and the World and the Devil which we renounced We have added to our Original Sin the guilt of Unthankfulness for a Saviour and resisting his Spirit and Grace that should have renewed governed and saved us We have spent much of our Lives in fleshly and worldly Vanity and finfully neglected the greatest work of making a sure Preparation for Death and Judgment and our endless State In a Custom of sinning we have hardened our Hearts against thy Word and Warnings and the Reproofs of thy Ministers and of our Consciences that have oft told us of our Sin and Danger and called us to Repent And now O Lord our convinced Souls confess that we deserve to be forsaken by thee and left to our own lust and folly and to the deceits of Satan and untoendless Misery But seeing thou hast given a Saviour to lost Man and a pardoning Covenant through the Merits of Christ promising Forgiveness and Salvation to every true penitent Believer we thankfully accept thy offered Mercy and penitently bewail our Sin and cast our miserable Souls upon thy Grace and the Sacrifice Merits and Intercession of our Redeemer Forgive all the sins of our Hearts and Lives and as a reconciled Father take us as thy adopted Children in Christ O give us thy renewing Spirit to be in us a powerful and constant Author of Holy Light and Love and Life to fit us for all our Duty and for Communion with thee and for Everlasting Life And to dwell in us as thy Witness and Seal of our Adoption Let him be better to our Souls than our Souls are to our Bodies Teaching us thy Word and Will and bringing all our love and will to a joyful compliance with thy Will and quickening our dull 〈◊〉 drowsie Hearts to a Holy and Heavenly Conversation Let him turn all our sinful Pleasures and Desires into the delightful love of thee and of thy Ways and Servants Save us from the great Sins of Selfishness Pride and Worldliness and give us Self-denial Humility and a Heavenly Mind That while we are on Earth our Hearts may be in Heaven where we hope to live in thy joyfull Love and praise with Christ and all his Holy Ones for even Let us never forget that this Life is short and that the Life to come is endless That our Souls are precious and our Bodies vile and must shortly turn to rottenness and dust that Sin is odio●s and Temptation● dangerous and Judgment dreadful to unprepaved guilty Souls and that without a Saviour and his Grace and Spirit there is no Salvation Cause us to live as we would die and let no Temptation Company or Business draw us to forget our God and our everlasting state Lord bless the World and specially these Kingdoms ●ith Wise Godly Just and Peaceable Princes and ●nferiour Judges and Magistrates and guide protect ●nd prosper them for the common good and the pro●oting of Godliness and suppressing of sin And bles●●ll Churches with able godly faithful Pastors that are ●ealous Lovers of God and Goodness and the Peoples ●ouls And save the Nations and Churches from Op●essing Tyrants and Deceivers and from melignan● Enemies to serious Piety And cause Subjects to live in just Obedience and in Love and Peace Bless Families with wise religious Governours who will carefully instruct their Children and Servants and restrain them from Sin and keep them from Temptation Teach Children and Servants to fear God and honour and obey their Governours O Our Father which art in Heaven Let thy Name b● hallowed Let thy Kingdom com● Let thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven 〈◊〉 in this day our daily Bre●d Forgive us our Trespasses as 〈◊〉 forgive them that Trespass against us Lead us not into Temptation but Deliver us from Evil For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever Amen Before Meat MOst Gracious God who hast given 〈◊〉 Christ and with him all that is necessary to Life and Godliness We thankfully take this our Food as the Gift of thy Bounty procured by his Merits Bless it to the Nourishment and Strength of our frail Bodies to fi● us for thy chearful Service And save us from the abuse of thy Mercies by Glu●tony Drunkennes● Idleness or sinful fleshly Lusts for the sake of Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Lord. Amen After Meat MOst Merciful Father Accept of our Thanks for these and all thy Mercies And give us yet more thankful Hearts O give us more of the great Mercies proper to thy Children even by Sanctifying and Comforting Spir●● assu●●nce of thy Love thr●ugh Christ and a ●reasure and 〈◊〉 Conversation in Heaven And bring and keep 〈◊〉 in a constant readiness for a safe and Comfortable Death For the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen FINIS a Mar. 8. 36. Mat. 6. 33. Job 21. 14. and 22. 17. Psal 1. 2 3. Psal 14. and 12. b Psal 8. 4 5 6. Gen. 1. 26 27 Gen. 9. 6. Col. 3. 10. c Joh. 17. 3. 1 Joh. 4. 6 7. Jer. 9. 24. d Luk. 12. 4 5. e Psal 16. 5 to 11. f Isa 45. 18. g Psal 14. 1. Gen. 1. 1. Rev. 1. 8. Rom. 1. 19. 20. Psal 46. 10. Psal 9. 10. Psal 100. and 23. Psal 19. 1 2 3. Psal 47. 7. Ezek. 18. 4. Gen. 18. 25. Mal. 1. 6. h Matth. 22. 37. Jer. 5. 22. 2 Cor. 5. 8 9. Titus 2. 14.

wise in time XV. Think well what manner of Men these were whose Names are now honoured for their Holiness What manner of Life did St. Peter and St. Paul St. Cyprian St. Augustine and all other Saints and Martyrs live Was it a Life of fleshly Sports and Pleasures Did they deride or persecute a Holy Life Were they not more strictly Holy than any that thou knowest And is he not self-condemned that honoureth the Names of Saints and will not imitate them XVI Think what the difference is between a Christian and an Heathen You are loath to be Heathens or Infidels But do you think a Christian excelleth them but in Opinion He that is not Holier than they ●s worse and shall suffer more than they XVII Think what the difference is between a Godly Christian and an Ungodly Do not all the Opposers of Holiness among us yet speak for the same God and Christ and Scripture and profess the same Creed and Religion with those whom they oppose And is not this Christ the Author of our Holiness and this Scripture the Commander of it Search and see whether the difference be not this that the Godly are serious in their Profession and the Ungodly are Hypocrites who hate and oppose the practise of the very things which themselves profess whose Religion serveth but to condemn them while their Lives are contrary to their Tongues XVIII Understand what the Devil's Policy is by raising so many Sects and Factions and Controversies about Religion in the World Even to make some think that they are religious because they can prare for their Opinions or because they think their Party is the best because their Faction is the Greatest or the Least the Uppermost or the suffering Side And to turn holy edifying Conference into vain Jangling and to make Men A●heists suspecting all Religion and true to none because of Mens diversity of Minds But remember that Christian Religion is but One and a thing easily known by its ancient Rule and the universal Church containing all Christians is but One. And if carnal Interest or Opinions so distract Men that one Party saith We are all the Church and another saith It is we as if the Kitchin were all the House o● one Town or Village all the Kingdom Wilt thou b●● mad with seeing this Distraction Hearken Sinner all these Sects in the Day of Judgment shall concur 〈◊〉 Witnesses against thee if thou be Unholy because however else they differed all of them that are Christians professed the Necessity of Holiness and subscribed to that Scripture which requireth it Though thou canst not easily resolve every Controversie thou mayst easily know-the true Religion it is that which Christ and his Apostles taught which all Christians have professed which Scripture requireth which is first pure and then peaceable most Spiritual Heavenly Charitable and Just XIX Away from that Company which is sensual and an Enemy to Reason Sobriety and Holiness and consequently to God themselves and thee Can they be wise for thee that are foolish for themselves or Friends to thee that are undoing themselves or have any pity on thy Soul when they make a Jest of their own Damnation Will they help thee to Heaven who are running so furiously to Hell chuse better Familiars if thou wouldest be better XX. Judge not of a holy Life by hearsay for it cannot so be known Try it a while and then judge as thou findest it Speak not against the things thou knowest not Hadst thou but lived in the Love of God and the lively belief of endless Glory and the Delights of Holiness and the Fears of Hell but for one Month or Day and with such a Heart Hadst cast away thy sin and called upon God and ordered thy Family in 〈◊〉 holy manner especially on the Lord's Day I dare boldly say Experience would constrain thee to justifie a holy Life But yet I must tell thee it is not ●rue Holiness if thou do but try it with Exceptions and Reserves If therefore God hath convinced thee that this is his Will and Way I adjure thee as in his dreadful Presence that thou delay no longer but resolve and absolutely give up thy self to God as thy Heavenly Father thy Saviour and thy Sanctifier and ●ake an everlasting Covenant with him and then he and 〈◊〉 his Mercies will be thine his Grace will help thee ●nd his Mercy pardon thee his Ministers will instruct ●hee and his People pray for thee and assist thee his Angels will guard thee and his Spirit comfort thee and when Flesh must fail and thou must leave this World thy Saviour will then receive thy Soul and bring ●t into the participation of his Glory and he will raise ●hy Body and justifie thee before the World and make ●hee equal to the Angels and thou shalt live in the ●ight and Love of God and in the Everlasting Pleasures ●f his Glory This is the end of Faith and Holiness But 〈◊〉 thou harden thy Heart and refusest Mercy everlasting Wo will be thy portion and then there will be no remedy And now Reader I beg of thee and I beg of God on my bended knees that these few words may sink into thy Heart and that thou wouldest read them over and over again and bethink thee as a Man that must shortly die Whether any deserve thy Love and Obedience more than God and thy thankful Remembrance more then Christ and thy Care and Diligence more than thy salvation Is there any Felicity more desirable than Heaven or any Misery more terrible than Hell or any thing so regardable as that which is everlasting Will a few days fleshly Pleasures pay for the loss of heaven and thy immortal Soul or will thy Sin and thy Prosperity be sweet at Death and in the Day of Judgment As thou art a Man and as ever thou believest that there is a God and a World to come and as thou carest for thy Soul whether it be saved or damned I beseech thee I charge thee think of these things think of them once a day at least think of them with thy most sober serious Thoughts Heaven is not a May-game and Hell is not a Flea-biting Make not a jest of Salvation or Damnation I know thou livest in a Distracted world where thou mayest hear some laughing at such things as these and scorning at a Holy Life and fastning odious Reproaches on the Godly and merrily drinking and playing and prating away their Time and then saying that they will trust God with their Souls and hope to be saved without so much ado But if all these Men do not change their minds and be not shortly down in the Mouth and would not be glad to eat their Words and wished that they had lived a holy Life though it had cost them Scorn and Suffering in the World let me bear the shame of a Deceiver for ever But if God and thy