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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.
5o. As the Humbled Soul hath base thoughts of himself, so he is willing that others should esteem, and think of him accordingly, even as a vile, unworthy sinner; so far as his disgrace may be no wrong to the Gospel, or to others, or dishonour to God. His Pride is so far taken down, that he can endure to be vilified, with some Consent: not approving of the sin of any man that doth it ⟨p. 126⟩maliciously, but consenting to the Judgment, and Rebukes of those that do it truly, and to the Judgment of God, even by them that do it maliciously. The Humbled Soul doth not stand defending, and unjustly extenuating his sin, and excusing himself, and swelling against the Reprover: Whatever he may do in a temptation, if this temper were predominant, his Pride, and not Humility, must be predominant. But he judgeth himself, as much as others can justly judg him, and humbly confesseth, to be Base in mens eyes, till God shall think it meet to raise him, and recover his esteem.
5o. As the Humbled Soul hath base thoughts of himself, so he is willing that others should esteem, and think of him accordingly, even as a vile, unworthy sinner; so far as his disgrace may be no wrong to the Gospel, or to others, or dishonour to God. His Pride is so far taken down, that he can endure to be vilified, with some Consent: not approving of the sinne of any man that doth it ⟨p. 126⟩maliciously, but consenting to the Judgment, and Rebukes of those that do it truly, and to the Judgment of God, even by them that do it maliciously. The Humbled Soul doth not stand defending, and unjustly extenuating his sinne, and excusing himself, and swelling against the Reprover: Whatever he may do in a temptation, if this temper were predominant, his Pride, and not Humility, must be predominant. But he judgeth himself, as much as others can justly judg him, and humbly confesseth, to be Base in mens eyes, till God shall think it meet to raise him, and recover his esteem.
And the Root of all this in the will is, 1o. A Love to God, whom we have offended, 2o. A hatred of sin, that hath offended him, and that hath made us vile, and 3o. A believing sense of the Love, and Sufferings of Christ, that in his flesh hath condemned sin, (