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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 5
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.
DIRECT. V. Having thus directed you about your Humiliation, the next Direction which I would offer you, that you may not miscarry in the work of Conversion, is this: See that you close with the Lord Jesus Christ, understandingly, heartily, and entirely as he is revealed, and offered to you in the Gospel. In this your Christianity doth consist: Upon ⟨p. 192⟩this your Justification, and Salvation lie. This is the sum of your Conversion; and the very heart of the New creature. The rest is all but the preparatives to this, or the fruits of this. Christ is the end and the fulfilling of the Law; the substance of the Gospel; the way to the Father: the life, the help, the hope of the Believer. If you know not him, you know nothing: If you possess not him, you have nothing: And if you are out of him, you can do nothing; that hath a promise of Salvation. And therefore I shall distinctly (though briefly) tell you what it is to close with Christ, Understandingly, heartily, and entirely, as he is offered in the Gospel.
DIRECT. V. Having thus directed you about your Humiliation, the next Direction which I would offer you, that you may not miscarry in the worke of Conversion, is this: See that you close with the Lord Jesus Christ, understandingly, heartily, and entirly as he is revealed, and offered to you in the Gospel. In this your Christianity doth consist: Upon ⟨p. 192⟩this your Justification, and Salvation lie. This is the summe of your Coversion; and the very heart of the New creature. The rest is all but the preparatives to this, or the fruits of this. Christ is the end and the fulfiling of the Law; the substance of the Gospel; the way to the Father: the life, the help, the hope of the Believer. If you know not him, you know nothing: If you possess not him, you have nothing: And if you are out of him, you can do nothing; that hath a promise of Salvation. And therefore I shall distinctly (though briefly) tell you what it is to close with Christ, Vnderstandingly, heartily, and entirely, as he is offered in the Gospel.