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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.
And I say the more of this, because I do observe that its the not apprehending the high and excellent Ends of Redemption, that makes it so much slighted, and consequently tempteth many to infidelity. For the Ends and Uses do set the value on the means. That is of little worth, that is to little purpose, and doth but little good. If men understood more the Ends of Redemption, and how much of God doth shine forth in the world, in the Person, and Life, and Laws, and Works of the Son of God, they would then live in the admiration of it, and be always searching, and prying into it, and desire to know nothing but God in Christ Crucified, and account all things else but as loss and dung for this excellent knowledge: But alas, the most do scarce discern any higher Ends of ⟨p. 232⟩Christ, or other use of him, then to save themselves from Hell, and for want of Faith, and through Humiliation, they have but little sense of that: And therefore no wonder if the Redeemer be neglected, and God denied the honour of the work.
And I say the more of this, because I do observe that its the not apprehending the high and excellent Ends of Redemption, that makes it so much slighted, and consequently tempteth many to infidelity. For the Ends and Uses do set the value on the means. That is of little worth, that is to little purpose, and doth but little good. If men understood more the Ends of Redemption, and how much of God doth shine forth in the world, in the Person, and Life, and Laws, and Works of the Sonne of God, they would then live in the admiration of it, and be alwaies searching, and prying into it, and desire to know nothing but God in Christ Crucified, and account all things else but as loss and dung for this excellent knowledg: But alas, the most do s•arce discern any higher Ends of ⟨p. 232⟩Christ, or other use of him, then to save themselves from Hell, and for want of Faith, and through Humiliation, they have but little sense of that: And therefore no wonder if the Redeemer be neglected, and God denied the honour of the work.