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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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You see then that this work hath most Glorious Ends; which I have mentioned the more largely, both to remove their temptations that are apt to think, that it was an unnecessary thing, and therefore the less regardable, and to teach men the true value of it, by showing them the true Ends.
You see then that this work hath most Glorious Ends; which I have mentioned the more largely, both to remove their temptations that are apt to think, that it was an unnecessary thing, and therefore the less regardable, and to teach men the true value of it, by shewing them the true Ends.
For the former, I say, There was no necessity that God should make the world, and reveal his Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness, in this excellent frame, but what did suppose the free Will of God, the Original Cause. Will you therefore say, that the Creation is vain; and undervalue Gods admirable works in which he thus revealeth himself to the intellectual Creatures? So here; we confess that there could be no necessity ⟨p. 231⟩of Redemption, but what was Originally derived from the Will of God, (though a necessity ad finem there was, from the constitution of things, upon supposition of what went before the undertaking.) But yet shall we undervalue so glorious a work, in which the Divine perfections do so fully reveal themselves to the world?
For the former, I say, There was no necessity that God should make the world, and reveale his Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness, in this excellent frame, but what did suppose the free Will of God, the Original Cause. Will you therefore say, that the Creation is vaine; and undervalue Gods admirable works in which he thus revealeth himself to the intellectuall Creatures? So here; we confess that there could be no necessity ⟨p. 231⟩of Redemption, but what was Originally derived from the Will of God, (though a necessity ad finem there was, from the constitution of things, upon supposition of what went before the undertaking.) But yet shall we undervalue so glorious a work, in which the Divine perfections do so fully reveale themselves to the world?