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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.
1. It beginneth in the Understanding; 2o It is rooted in the Will; 3o It worketh in the Affections; and 4o. When there is opportunity it showeth it self in outward expressions, and actions.
1. It beginneth in the Understanding; 2o It is rooted in the Will; 3o It worketh in the Affections; and 4o. When there is opportunity it sheweth it self in outward expressions, and actions.
1. Humiliation in the Understanding, consisteth in a low esteem of our selves, and in a self-abasing, self-condemning Judgment on our selves. And that in these Particulars.
1o. It consisteth in a deep, and solid apprehension, of the odiousness of our own sins habitual; and actual, and of our selves for our sins: and that because they are contrary to the blessed Nature and Law of God, and so contrary to our own perfection, and chief Good. 2o. It consisteth also in a solid, and fixed apprehension, of our own ill-deserving, because of these sins: So that our Judgments do subscribe to the equity of the condemning sentence of the Law; and we Judge our selves unworthy of the smallest mercy • and worthy of Hell fire. 3o. It consisteth in an apprehension of our undone, and miserable Condition in our selves: not only as we are the ⟨p. 122⟩Heirs of Torment, but as we are void of the Image and Spirit of God, and have lost his favour, and are under his displeasure, and enmity by our sin, and have forfeited our part in Everlasting Glory, and how unable we are to help our selves.
1o. It consisteth in a deep, and solid apprehension, of the odiousness of our own sinnes habitual; and actual, and of our selves for our sinnes: and that because they are contrary to the blessed Nature and Law of God, and so contrary to our own perfection, and chief Good. 2o. It consisteth also in a solid, and fixed apprehension, of our own ill-deserving, because of these sinnes: So that our Judgments do subscribe to the equity of the condemning sentence of the Law; and we Judge our selves unworthy of the smalest mercy and worthy of Hell fire. 3o. It consisteth in an apprehension of our undone, and miserable Condition in our selves: not only as we are the