Richard Baxter：论圣洁的生命
Richard Baxter：论圣洁的生命
那位定意要把我们带到荣耀里去的主，也同样定意要通过在圣洁中的坚忍和藉着持续不断的顺从把我们带到荣耀里去，因为两者从来都不可缺一，他也永不会以任何其他的方式拯救我们。的确，当我们信主的时候，我们已经脱离了许多严重的危险，但还有许多危险摆在我们面前，我们必须谨慎和努力来逃脱这些危险。我们是从死亡的境界进入到得生命，但我们不是直接从地上被升到到天上。
我们有恩典的生命，但我们离荣耀的生命还很远。
就好像
我们既然有了恩典的生命，怎能不活出来？
我们进入了葡萄园中，怎能不工作？
我们进入了基督的军队中，怎能不战斗？
我们进入了赛跑中，怎能不为奖赏而奔跑？
我们进入了正道，怎能不走在正道上？
He that is resolved to bring us to glory is as much resolved to bring us to it by perseverance in holiness and diligent obedience, for He never decreed the one without the other, and He will never save us by any other way. Indeed, when we are converted, we have escaped many and grievous dangers, but yet there are many more before us which we must by care and diligence escape. We are translated from death to life, but not from earth to heaven.
We have the life of grace, but we are short of the life of glory. And why have we the life of grace but to use it and live by it? Why came we into the vineyard but to work? And why came we into the army of Christ but to fight? Why came we into the race but to run for the prize? Or why turned we into the right way but to travel in it?
取自：RICHARD BAXTER
Baxteriana, 125
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