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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.
4. Hereby also he hath set us a perfect copy and pattern of obedience, and is become our Example whom we must endeavour to imitate. For he knew that it is the most effectual teaching, to do it by words and deeds together. It is a great help to us, when we do not only hear his voice, but see also which way he hath gone before us. When he saith, Learn of me, he directs us, not only to his words, but to himself, who was ⟨p. 236⟩meek and lowly, Matth. 11. 28.
4. Hereby also he hath set us a perfect copy and patern of obedience, and is become our Example whom we must endeavour to imitate. For he knew that it is the most effectual teaching, to do it by words and deeds together. It is a great help to us, when we do not only heare his voice, but see also which way he hath gone before us. When he saith, Learn of me, he directs us, not only to his words, but to himself, who was ⟨p. 236⟩meeke and lowly, Matth. 11. 28.
5. Moreover Christ received of the Father fullness of the Spirit, and Power, for the benefit of the Redeemed: that he might be meet to be the Head, and the Treasury of the Church, and to shower down the streams of Grace upon his Members; and when all Power was given him in Heaven, and Earth, he might be fitted to the following application of his benefits, and to rule, and support, and defend his people.
6. Moreover he was pleased himself to become a Preacher of the Gospel of Salvation; not to all the world, but principally as a Minister of the Circumcision, that is, the Jews,