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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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6. Another End also is apparent in the Scripture; which is the Glorifying ⟨p. 210⟩of Gods Rewarding Justice, together with his Mercy in the Salvation of his Elect. This End he hath partly attaineth here (for God hath his Ends continually:) In this life his Servants have much of his Mercy; and the beginnings of their Reward in the beginning of their Salvation; But the fullness is hereafter in their Glorification. All his promises he performeth in their seasons. Even in the present pardon of our sins he honoureth his Faithfulness and Justice, 1 Joh. 1. 9. His Faithfulness in making good his promise, and his Justice in Rewarding the performers of the condition, and giving what his promise had made their due: that so men may even here in part discern between the Righteous and the Wicked, between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not; while they see God esteem of his people as his jewels, and spa•e them as a man spareth his son that serveth him Mal. 3. 17, 18. The King of Zion is just, having Salvation, Zach. 9. 9. The Righteousness of God is manifested in our Justification, Rom. 3. 21, 22. Even the Righteousness of God, which is by Faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: ⟨p. 211⟩For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God; being Justified freely by his grace, through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness: for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God: to declare, I say, at this time his Righteousness; that he might be Just, and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus, Rom. 3. 25, 26.
6. Another End also is apparent in the Scripture; which is the Glorifying