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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 4
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.
DIRECT. IV. The fourth Direction which I shall give you, that the work of your Conversion may not miscarry is this: See that the work of Humiliation be throughly done, and break not away from the Spirit of Contrition before he have done with you: and yet see that you mistake not the Nature, and the Ends of the work, and that you drive it not on further then God requireth you.
DIRECT. IV. The fourth Direction which I shall give you, that the work of your Conversion may not miscary is this: See that the work of Humiliation be throughly done, and break not away from the Spirit of Contrition before he have done with you: and yet see that you mistake not the Nature, and the Ends of the work, and that you drive it not on further then God requireth you.
Here I shall first show you the true Nature of Humiliation: and 2o. the use and ends of it, and 3o. the mistakes about it, that you must avoid, and 4o. I shall press on the Substance of the Direction, and show you the necessity of it.
Here I shall first shew you the true Nature of Humiliation: and 2o. the use and ends of it, and 3o. the mistakes about it, that you must avoid, and 4o. I shall press on the Substance of the Direction, and shew you the necessity of it.
I. There is a Preparatory Humiliation that goes before a saving change, which yet is not to be despised, because it is a drawing somewhat nearer unto God, though it be not a faithful closure with him. This Preparatory Humiliation, which many have that perish, doth chiefly consist in these things following. 1o It lieth most in the Fear of being damned: As it is most in the Passions, so most in this of Fear. 2o. It consisteth also in some apprehension of the greatness of our sins, and the wrath of God, that