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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.
I. The first thing that Christ did for the saving of the world, was his Interposing between offending man, and the wrath of God; and so preserving the world from the destruction, which the execution of the violated Law would have procured: Undertaking then to become the Seed of the woman, and so to break ⟨p. 233⟩the Serpents head: and revealing this Grace by slow degrees, till the time of his coming.
And then when the fullness of time was come, he was made man, being conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary, and so the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among men, who beheld his Glory, as the Glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of Grace, and Truth, Joh. 1. 14. Thus God was manifested to men in the flesh. 1 Tim. 3. 16.
3. And as he was perfectly Holy in his Nature without any stain or guilt of Original sin; so was he perfectly Holy in his Life, and never broke the least Command of God in thought, word, or deed. Never could any convince him of sin, Joh. 8. 46. He fulfilled the Law of Nature, which all the world was under, and the Mosaical Law which the Jews were under, and the special Law that was given to himself as Mediator, and was common to no other Creature in the world.
3. And as he was perfectly Holy in his Nature without any stain or guilt of Original sinne; so was he perfectly Holy in his Life, and never broke the least Command of God in thought, word, or deed. Never could any convince him of sinne,