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Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…
Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter.Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Directions to Sinners that are purposed to Turn, and are under the… › Direction 3
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Especially, when it is not only your Own, but it is the One thing needful, ⟨p. 103⟩Luke 10. 42. It is that which your life, or death, your Everlasting Joy or Torment lieth on: and therefore must be Considered of, or you are utterly undone for ever. Necessity lieth upon you; and woe be to you, if you Consider not of these things. It is not so necessary that you eat, or drink, or sleep, or live, as it is Necessary that you make sure your Everlasting life. And the Profit also doth answer the necessity. Buy but this one Pearl, and you will be infinite gainers, though you sell all that you have in the world to buy it. Matth. 13. 44, 45, 46. Get God, and get all: make sure of Heaven, and then fear no loss, nor want, nor sorrow. If you count not all the world as dung, for the winning of Christ, that you may be found in him, possessed of his righteousness, it is because you know neither the world, nor Christ, Phil. 3. 7, 8, 9. Yea the Delight also will answer the Commodity: For in the presence of God is fullness of Joy, and at his right hand are pleasures for evermore, Psal 16. 11. And the fore-thoughts of them may well make glad our hearts, and cause our Glory to rejoice, Psal. 16. 8, 9. For Goodness and ⟨p. 104⟩Mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the House of the Lord for ever: Psal. 23. 6. He shall guide us with his Counsel, and afterward receive us into Glory: Psal. 73. 24. And lest yet you should suspect any lack of Comfort, he tells you, you shall enter into the Joy of your Lord, Matth. 25. 23. And that you shall be with him where he is, to behold his Glory, Joh. 17. 24