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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
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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, (Rom. 8. 2, 3.) And thus you see what Humiliation is in the Will, which is the very Life and Soul of true Humiliation.
And the Root of all this in the will is, 1o. A Love to God, whom we have offended, 2o. A hatred of sinne, 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 sinne, (Rom. 8. 2, 3.) And thus you see what Humiliation is in the Will, which is the very Life and Soul of true Humiliation.
3o. Humiliation also consisteth in the Affections: In an unfeigned sorrow for the sin which we have committed, and the corruption that is in us; and a shame ⟨p. 127⟩for these sins; and a holy fear of God whom we have offended, and of his Judgments which we have deserved; and a hatred of our sins, by which we have deserved them. But (as I must further show you anon) it is not the Measure, but the sincerity of these Passions, by which you must make a Judgment of your state: And that will be hardly discerned by the Passions themselves, but only by so much of the Will, as is in them: and therefore the Will is the safest to Judg by.
3o. Humiliation also consisteth in the Affections: In an unfeigned sorrow for the sinne which we have committed, and the corruption that is in us; and a shame ⟨p. 127⟩for these sinnes; and a holy feare of God whom we have offended, and of his Judgments which we have deserved; and a hatred of our sinnes, by which we have deserved them. But (as I must further shew you anon) it is not the Measure, but the sincerity of these Passions, by which you must make a Judgment of your state: And that will be hardly discerned by the Passions themselves, but only by so much of the Will, as is in them: and therefore the Will is the safest to Judg by.