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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.
2o. There is also in the will a deep Repenting that ever we sinned, and wronged God, and abused Grace•, and have ⟨p. 124⟩brought our selves to this as we have done; so that the humbled Soul could wish that he had spent his days in prison, in beggary, or in bodily misery, so that he had not spent them in sin; and if it were to do again, he would rather choose such a life of shame and calamity in the world, then a life of sin, and would be glad of the exchange.
2o. There is also in the will a deepe Repenting that ever we sinned, and wronged God, and abused Grace•, and have ⟨p. 124⟩brought our selves to this as we have done; so that the humbled Soul could wish that he had spent his daies in prison, in beggery, or in bodily misery, so that he had not spent them in sinne; and if it were to do againe, he would rather choose such a life of shame and calamity in the world, then a life of sinne, and would be glad of the exchange.
3o. A humbled Soul is truly willing, to grieve for the sins which he hath committed, and to be as deeply sensible of them, and afflicted for them, as God would have him. Even when he cannot shed a tear, yet his will is to shed them. When he cannot feel any deep afflicting of his Soul for sin, his hearty Desire is, that he might feel it. He doth an hundred times weep in Desire, when he doth it not in Act.
3o. A humbled Soul is truly willing, to grieve for the sinnes which he hath committed, and to be as deeply sensible of them, and afflicted for them, as God would have him. Even when he cannot shed a tear, yet his will is to shed them. When he cannot feel any deep afflicting of his Soul for sinne, his hearty Desire is, that he might feel it. He doth an hundred times weep in Desire, when he doth it not in Act.