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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

could not prevail We intreated them to lay all other Businesses aside a little while in the World and to enquire by the Direction of the Word of God what would become of them in the World to come and judg themselves before God came to judg them seeing they had the Law and Rule of Judgment before them but their Minds were blinded and their Hearts were hardned and the Profit and Pleasure and Honour of th● World did either stop their Ears for quickly steal away the Hearts so that we could never get them to a sober Consideration nor ever win their Hearts to God This will be the Witness that many a hundred Ministers of the Gospel must give in against the Souls o● their People at that Day Alas that ever you shoul● cast this upon us For the Lord's sake Sirs pity you● poor Teachers if you pity not your selves We ha● rather go 1000 Miles for you we had rather be scorne● and abused for your sakes we had rather lay our Hands under your Feet and beseech you on our Knees with Tears were we able than be put on such Work as this It i● you that will do it if it be done We had rather follow you from House to House and teach and exhort you● if you will but hear us and accept of our Exhortation Your Souls are pretious in our Eyes for we know they were so in the Eyes of Christ and therefore we ar● loth to see this Day we were once in your Case and therefore know what it is to be blind and careless and carnal as you are and therefore would fain obtain your Deliverance But if you will not hear but we must accuse you and we must condemn you the Lord judg between you and us For we can witness that i● was full sore against our Wills We have been faulty indeed in doing no more for you and not following you with restless Importunity the Good Lord forgive us but yet we have not betrayed you by silence 2. All those that fear God that have lived among●● ungodly Men will also be sufficient Witnesses against them Alas they must be put upon the same Work which is very unpleasant to their Thoughts as Minister● are They must witness before the Lord that they did as Friends and Neighbours admonish them tha● they gave them a good Example and endeavoured to walk in Holiness before them But alas the most did but mock them and call them Puritans and precise Fools and they made more ado than needs for thei● ●●lvation They must be forced to restify Lord we ●ould fain have drawn them with us to hear the Word ●nd to read it and to pray in their Families and to ●●nctify the holy Day and take such happy Opportu●ities for their Souls but we could not get them to 〈◊〉 we did in our Places what we were able to ●●ve them the Example of a godly Conversati●n and they did but deride us they were rea●●er to mark every slip of our Lives and to observe ●ll our Infirmities and catch at any Accusation that was against us than to follow us in any Work of holy ●bedience or Care for their everlasting Peace The ●ord knows it is a most heavy thing to consider now that ●oor Neighbours must be fain to come in against those ●hey love so dearly and by their Testimony to judg ●hem to Perdition O heavy Case to think of that Master must witness against his own Servant Yea Husband against his own Wife and a Wife against ●er Husband yea Parents against their own Children ●nd say Lord I taught them thy Word but they would ●ot learn I told them what would come on it if they ●eturned not to thee I brought them to Sermons and 〈◊〉 prayed with them and for them I frequently ●inded them of these everlasting Things and of ●his dreadful Day which they now see But youth●ul Lusts and the Temptations of the Flesh and the Devil led them away and I could never get them ●hroughly and soundly to lay it to their Hearts O ●ou that are Parents and Friends and Neighbours ●n the Fear of God bestir you now that you may not ●e put to this at that Day of Judgment O give them ●o rest take no nay of them till you have perswaded ●heir Hearts from this World to God lest you be put ●o be their Condemners It must be now that you must prevent it or else never now while you are with them while you and they are in the Flesh together which will be but a little while Can you but now prevail with them all will be well and you may meet them ●oyfully before the Lord. 3. Another Witness that will testify against the Ungodly at that Day will be their sinful Companions those that drew them into Sin or were drawn by them or joined with them in it O little do poor Drunkards think when they sit merrily in an Ale-house that one of them must bear witness against another and condemn one another If they thought of this methinks it should make them have less Delight in that Company those that now join with you in Wickedness shall then be forced to witness I confess Lord I did hear him sweat and curse I heard him deride those that feared the Lord and make a Jest of a holy Life I saw him in the Ale-house when he should be hearing the Word of God or reading or calling upon God and preparing for this Day I joined with him in fleshly Delights in abusing thy Creature and our own Bodies Sinners look your Companions in the Face the next time you are with them and remember this that I now say that those Men shall give in Evidence against you that now are your Associates in all your Mirth Little thinketh the Fornicator and lustful Wanton that their sinful Mates must then bear Witness of that which they thought the Dark had concealed and tell their Shame before all the World But this must be the Fruit of Sin It 's meet that they who encouraged one another in Sin should condemn one another for it And marvel not at it for they shall be forced to it whether they will or no Light will not then be hid They may think to have some case to their Consciences by accusing and condemning others When Adam is questioned for his Sin he presently accuseth the Woman Gen. 3. 12. when Judas his Conscience was awakned he runs to the Pharisees with the Money that drew him to it and they cast it back in his own Face See thou to il what is that to us Mat. 27. 4 5 6. O the cold Comfort that Sinners will have at that Day and the little I leasure that they will find in remembring their evil Ways Now when a Foruicator or a Worldling or a merry voluptuous Man is grown old and cannot act all his Sin again he takes Pleasure in remembring and telling others of his former Folly what he once was and what he