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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.
And as in the world he was scorned with the Title of a King, and crowned with thorns, and clothed in such Kingly robes, as might make him the fitter object for their reproach: So when ⟨p. 147⟩his Spirit entereth into the Soul, he will be there enthroned in our most reverent, subjective, and deepest esteem, and crowned with our highest Love, and Thankfulness, and bowed to with the tenders of Obedience, and our praise. The Cross shall there be the portion of his enemies, and the Crown and Sceptre shall be his: and as all were preferred before him on Earth, even Barabbas himself; so all things shall be put under him in the Sanctified Soul, and he shall be preferred before all.
And as in the world he was scorned with the Title of a King, and crowned with thorns, and clothed in such Kingly robes, as might make him the fitter object for their reproach: So when ⟨p. 147⟩his Spirit entereth into the Soul, he will be there inthroned in our most reverent, subjective, and deepest esteeme, and crowned with our highest Love, and Thankfullnes, and bowed to with the tenders of Obedience, and our praise. The Cross shall there be the portion of his enemies, and the Crown and Scepter shall be his: and as all were preferred before him on Earth, even Barrabas himself; so all things shall be put under him in the Sanctified Soul, and he shall be preferred before all.
This is the end of Humiliation, to make ready the heart for a fuller entertainment of the Lord that bought it: and to prepare the way before him, and fit the Soul to be the Temple of his Spirit. A humbled Soul would never have put him off with excuses from Oxen, and Farms, and Wives; As Luke 14. and Matth. 22. But the unhumbled will make light of him.