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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. But when we are perfected in ⟨p. 229⟩Glory, then we our selves shall clearly see the Glory of this Mystery, and of God therein. As it is not till we come to Heaven, that we shall have the fullest benefits of Redemption, so it is not till then, that we shall have the fullest understanding of it, and God have his fullest praises for it. As we are here but sowing the seed of our own Glory, which we must reap in the everlasting fruition of God; so God is here but sowing those seeds of his Praise, and Glory, which he will eternally reap by this blessed work. Do not therefore judg of the ends, and fruits of Christ's undertakings, by what you see him attain on Earth, but by what he shall attain in Heaven, when he hath fully seen the travail of his Soul, to his satisfaction, and hath presented the whole Church without spot unto God, and when the glorious manage of the Lamb, with the Heavenly Jerusalem is solemnized, and the Kingdom delivered up to the Father, Isa. 53. 11. Ephes. 5. 27. Rev. 19. 7. 1 Cor. 15. 24. It will be another manner of conceiving which we shall have in Heaven of this blessed work, when we see the face of our Glorified Lord, and fully possess the fruits of ⟨p. 230⟩his Redemption, then this is that we have now by our weak believing. We shall then have another manner of sight of the Wisdom, and Power, and Love, and Justice that appear to man, in the face of Christ, then now we have.
4. Yea the tormenting discoveries of the Glory of Redemption to the condemned rejecters of it, shall also contribute to the Glory of God.