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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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1. One Error that you must take heed of, is, That you take not Humiliation for an indifferent thing, or for such an appurtenance of Faith, as may be spared: Think not an unhumbled Soul while such can be Sanctified. Some carnal hearts conceive, that it is only more heinous sinners, that must be contrite and broken hearted; and that this is not necessary to them that have been brought up civilly, or religiously from their youth. But it is as possible to be saved without Faith, as without Repentance, and that ⟨p. 155⟩special Humiliation, which I described to you before. It's part of your Sanctification.
1. One Error that you must take heed of, is, That you take not Humiliation for an indifferent thing, or for such an appurtenance of Faith, as may be spared: Think not an unhumbled Soul while such can be Sanctified. Some carnal hearts conceive, that it is only more haynous sinners, that must be contrite and broken hearted; and that this is not necessary to them that have been brought up civilly, or religiously from their youth. But it is as possible to be saved without Faith, as without Repentance, and that ⟨p. 155⟩special Humiliation, which I described to you before. It's part of your Sanctification.
2. Another mistake to be carefully avoided, is, The placing of your Humiliation, either only, or principally, in the Passionate part, or in the outward expression of those Passions. I mean, either in pinching grief, and sorrow of heart, or else in tears. But you must remember that the Life of it is, as was said before, in the Judgment and the Will. It is not the measure of Passionate sorrow and anguish, that will best show the measure of your sincere Humiliation: much less is it your tears, or outward expressions. But it is your low esteem of your selves, and contentedness to be vile in the eyes of others: And your displacency with your selves, and willingness to mourn, and weep for sin as much as God would have you: with the rest of the acts of the Judgment and Will before described.