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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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He will make you think your selves unworthy to hear those Ministers that you turned your back upon; and he will take down your Teaching, talking vain, and make you glad again to be learners: In a word, he will by Conversion make you as little Children, or you shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
He will make you think your selves unworthy to hear those Ministers that you turned your back upon; and he will take down your Teaching, talking vaine, and make you glad again to be learners: In a word, he will by Conversion make you as little Children, or you shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
And this spiritual Pride is a most lamentable disease, and the issue usually is exceeding sad. For with many, 'tis the fore-runner of damnable Apostasy, and God gives them once to their own conceits, and the wisdom which they so esteem, till it have led them to perdition. And those that are cured, are many of them cured by the saddest way of any men in the world. For it is usual with God to let them alone, till they have run themselves into some abominable error, or fallen into some shameful scandalous sin, till they are made a hissing and by-word among men; that shame and confusion may bring them to their wits, and they may learn to know what it was that they were Proud of, and see that they were but silly worms.
And this spiritual Pride is a most lamentable disease, and the issue usually is exceeding sad. For with many, 'tis the fore-runner of damnable Apostacy, and God gives them once to their own conceits, and the wisdom which they so esteem, till it have led them to perdition. And those that are cured, are many of them cured by the saddest way of any men in the world. For it is usual with God to let them alone, till they have runne themselves into some abominable errour, or fallen into some shamefull scandalous sinne, till they are made a hissing and by-word among men; that shame and confusion may bring them to their wits, and they may learn to know what it was that they were Proud of, and see that they were but silly worms.