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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.
6. Consider what sorrows they be that these sorrows do prevent, and what those suffer in Hell, that avoid this godly sorrow on earth. O Sirs, your Repentance-sorrows are joys to those: Yours have Hope; but theirs are quickened with desperation: Yours are small, and but a drop to their Ocean: Yours are Curing; but theirs are Tormenting: Yours are a Fathers Rod: but theirs are the Rack and Gallows: Yours are mixed with love; but theirs are unmixed, over-whelming them with confusion: Yours are short; but theirs are endless. And had you rather sorrow as they do, then as the godly do? Had you rather howl with Devils and rebels, then weep with Saints and Children? Had you rather be broken in Hell by Torments, then on earth by Grace? Is it not an unreasonable thing of you, to make such a stir at the sorrow that must save you, when ⟨p. 189⟩you remember what it would save you from, and what all must suffer that are not Humbled here by Grace. O it is another kind of sorrow that others are now enduring. Grudge not at the pricking of a vein, when so many thousands are everlastingly bleeding at the heart.
6. Consider what sorrows they be that these sorrows do prevent, and what those suffer in Hell, that avoid this godly sorrow on earth. O Sirs, your Repentance-sorrows are joyes to those: Yours have Hope; but theirs are quickned with desperation: Yours are small, and but a drop to their Ocean: Yours are Curing; but theirs are Tormenting: Yours are a Fathers Rod: but theirs are the Rack and Gallows: Yours are mixt with love; but theirs are unmixed, over-whelming them with confusion: Yours are short; but theirs are endless. And had you rather sorrow as they do, then as the godly do? Had you rather howl with Devils and rebels, then weep with Saints and Children? Had you rather be broken in Hell by Torments, then on earth by Grace? Is it not an unreasonable thing of you, to make such a stir at the sorrow that must save you, when ⟨p. 189⟩you remember what it would save you from, and what all must suffer that are not Humbled here by Grace. O it is another kind of sorrow that others are now enduring. Grudg not at the pricking of a vein, when so many thousands are everlastingly bleeding at the heart.