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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.
2. Hereby also God Demonstrated the Holiness of his Nature: How much he hateth sin; and how unreconcilable he is to it; as light to darkness: As the Law and Judgments of God do proceed from his Perfect Nature and Will, so do they bear the Image of that perfection, and demonstrate it to the world. This therefore is the nobler End, and work of Christ in our redemption, to declare the Holiness and Perfection of God in his Nature and Will; though the former (the declaring of his Governing Justice) be the nearer End. If the death of Aaron's two sons were such a Declaration, that God will be sanctified in all that draw near him. Lev. 10. 2, 3, If his Laws and present Judgments do declare him to be a Holy and Jealous God, that will not forgive sin (without a valuable consideration, or satisfaction) Jos. 24. 19. how much more evidently is this declared in the death of Christ? If the Bethshemites cry out, who is able to stand before this Holy Lord God? 1 Sam. 6. 20. Upon the death of 50070 men; how ⟨p. 199⟩much more may the guilty Soul say so, when he thinks on the Crucified Son of God? As it is the End of Gods execution on transgressors, that the Lord may be exalted in Judgment, and God that is Holy may be Sanctified in Righteousness; Isa. 5. 16. So was it his End in the Sacrifice of his Sonne.
2. Hereby also God Demonstrated the Holiness of his Nature: How much he hateth sinne; and how unreconcilable he is to it; as light to darkness: As the Law and Judgments of God do proceed from his Perfect Nature and Will, so do they bear the Image of that perfection, and demonstrate it to the world. This therefore is the nobler End, and work of Christ in our redemption, to declare the Holiness and Perfection of God in his Nature and Will; though the former (the declaring of his Governing Justice) be the neerer End. If the death of Aarons two sonnes were such a Declaratition, that God will be sanctified in all that draw neer him. Lev. 10. 2, 3, If his Laws and present Judgments do declare him to be a Holy and Jealous God, that will not forgive sinne (without a valuable consideration, or satisfaction)