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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
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3. Another End of our Redemption by Christ, is the Demonstration of the Infinite Wisdom of God. His Wisdom in the preventing the ruin of the late-created world; that it might not be said that sin and Satan had frustrated him of the Glory of his Creation, and destroyed it almost as soon as he had made it: Yea in getting an advantage by the malice of his enemies, for the more admirable attainment of the Ends of his Law, and the Glorifying of all his Governing Attributes: He would not have made man a free Agent, and left him in the hand of his own will, and suffered him to sin, if his Wisdom had not known how to secure his own Interest and Honour to the full. And so also in the economy and admirable frame of his Gracious Sapiential Government by Christ, the manifold Wisdom of God doth shine forth, Ephes. 3. 9, 10. As ⟨p. 200⟩the wonderful structure of Heaven, and Earth, and every part of this Natural frame, doth gloriously reveal the Wisdom of the Creator; so the wonderful Contrivance of our Redemption by Christ, and the Reparation of the world by him, and the Moral frame of this Evangelical dispensation, doth wonderfully demonstrate the Wisdom of the Redeemer. And as the observation of our Natures, may give us Cause to say with David, Psal. 139. 14. I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. So the observation of our new Natures and condition, may well cause us to say, I will praise thee; for I am graciously and wonderfully Redeemed, marvellous are thy Works, and that my Soul knoweth right well. As Nature may teach us to admire the frame of Nature; so Grace will teach us to admire the frame of Grace; and to see the beauty of its several parts; and much more of the whole where all the parts are orderly composed.
3. Another End of our Redemption by Christ, is the Demonstration of the Infinite Wisdom of God. His Wisdom in the preventing the ruin of the late-created world; that it might not be said that sin and Satan had frustrated him of the Glory of his Creation, and destroyed it almost as soon as he had made it: Yea in getting an advantage by the malice of his enemies, for the more admirable attainment of the Ends of his Law, and the Glorifying of all his Governing Attributes: He would not have made man a free Agent, and left him in the hand of his own will, and suffered him to sinne, if his Wisdom had not known how to secure his own Intrest and Honour to the full. And so also in the oeconomy and admirable frame of his Gracious Sapiential Government by Christ, the manifold Wisdom of God doth shine forth,