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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.
But it is most eminently at Judgment, and in the world to come, that this Remunerative Justice with Mercy will be Glorified: When Christ shall come (purposely) to be glorified in his Saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (not only in himself, but in them:) and that because they were believers, 2 Thes. 1. 10. When we have fought the good fight, and finished our Course, and kept the Faith, we shall find that there is laid up for us a Crown of Righteousness, which the Lord the Righteous Judg shall give us, and all that love his appearing at that day • 2 Tim. 4. 8. He will justify and applaud them before all the world, yea and adjudge them to everlasting Life, with a ⟨p. 212⟩Well done, Good and Faithful servant: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord; I will make thee Ruler over many things; even Because they had been faithful in a little, Luke 19▪ 17. Matth. 25. 21, 23. Because they showed their love to him in his members, he will say to them, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, Matth. 25. 34, 35, 36. He that now commandeth us to say to the Righteous, It shall be well with him, Isa. 3. 10. Will in Righteousness Cause it then to be well with him. Then shall the Righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father, Matth. 13. 43 And the Righteousness and Mercy of their Father shall as conspicuously and gloriously shine in them. For it is a day appointed for the Revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his deeds, Rom. 2. 5, 6. The present Faith and Patience of the Saints in all the Persecutions and Tribulations which they endure, is a manifest token of the Righteous Judgment of God, that they may be accounted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which they suffer: It being a Righteous thing with God to Recompense