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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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7. Consider, The more you are rightly Humbled, the sweeter will Christ and all his Mercies be to you ever after while you live. One taste of the healing Love of Christ, will make you bless those sorrows that prepared for it. The same Christ is not equally esteemed even by all that he will save: And had you not rather be emptied yet more of your selves, that you may be fuller of Christ hereafter? When you do but feel his arms embracing you, and perceive him in that posture as the prodigal's Father was, Luke 15. 20. You will thank that sorrow that fitted you for his arms.
7. Consider, The more you are rightly Humbled, the sweeter will Christ and all his Mercies be to you ever after while you live. One tast of the healing Love of Christ, will make you bless those sorrows that prepared for it. The same Christ is not equally esteemed even by all that he will save: And had you not rather be emptied yet more of your selves, that you may be fuller of Christ hereafter? When you do but feel his arms embracing you, and perceive him in that posture as the prodigal's Father was, Luke 15. 20. You will thank that sorrow that fitted you for his armes.
8. If you be throughly humbled, you will walk the more safely all your days, if other things correspond. It will make you hate the sin you smarted by, and fly the occasions of that which cost you once so dear.
8. If you be throughly humbled, you will walk the more safely all your daies, if other things correspond. It will make you hate the sinne you smarted by, and fly the occasions of that which cost you once so dear.