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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.
But we have more death-bed Confessions, then voluntary Confessions before the Church. Nay so far hath Pride and Hypocrisy prevailed, and the ancient discipline of the Church been neglected, that I think in most Countries in England, there are many more that make Confessions on the Gallows, then personally in the Congregation.
But we have more death-bed Confessions, then voluntary Confessions before the Church. Nay so far hath Pride and Hypocrisie prevailed, and the ancient discipline of the Church been neglected, that I think in most Countries in England, there are many more that make Confessions on the Gallows, then personally in the Congregation.
2o. Humiliation must be also expressed, by all those external means, and signs which God by Scripture, or Nature calleth us to. As by tears, and groans, so far as we can seasonably procure them. And by Fasting, and ⟨p. 130⟩laying by our worldly pomp and bravery, and using mean, (though decent) attire: and by condescending to men of the lower sort, and stooping to the meanest: By humble Language, and Carriage: and by forgiving others, on this account, that we are sensible of the greatness of our Debts to God. And thus I have briefly showed you the true Nature of Humiliation, that you may know what it is that I am persuading you to, and which you must submit your hearts unto.
2o. Humiliation must be also expressed, by all those external means, and signes which God by Scripture, or Nature calleth us to. As by tears, and groans, so far as we can seasonably procure them. And by Fasting, and ⟨p. 130⟩laying by our worldly pomp and bravery, and using meane, (though decent) attire: and by condescending to men of the lower sort, and stooping to the meanest: By humble Language, and Carriage: and by forgiving others, on this account, that we are sensible of the greatness of our Debts to God. And thus I have briefly shewed you the true Nature of Humiliation, that you may know what it is that I am perswading you to, and which you must submit your hearts unto.