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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.
11. When he had abode thus forty days on Earth, he ascended up into Heaven while his Disciples stood by, and gazed after him, Acts 1. 9, 10. And there hath taken possession in our Nature, advancing it to the Fathers right hand in Glory, which was by sin depressed so low in misery. And so he is gone to prepare ⟨p. 240⟩a place for us, leaving us a certain word of promise that he will come again, and take us to himself, that where he is there we may be also, Joh. 14. 2, 3. And as our life now is hid there with Christ in God, so when he shall appear, we shall appear with him in glory, Col. 3. 3, 4.
11. When he had abode thus forty daies on Earth, he ascended up into Heaven while his Disciples stood by, and gazed after him, Acts 1. 9, 10. And there hath taken possession in our Nature, advancing it to the Fathers right hand in Glory, which was by sinne deprest so low in misery. And so he is gone to prepare ⟨p. 240⟩a place for us, leaving us a certain word of promise that he will come again, and take us to himself, that where he is there we may be also, Joh. 14. 2, 3. And as our life now is hid there with Christ in God, so when he shall appear, we shall appear with him in glory, Col. 3. 3, 4.
12. Being ascended, he manifested his Power and his Truth in sending down the Holy Ghost upon his Disciples, enabling them to do such works as he had done, and such as were necessary to convince the unbelieving world, and to conquer the opposing wisdom and power of the flesh: Enabling them to speak in variety of Languages, which they had never before learnt; as also to understand, and powerfully preach the mysteries of the Gospel, to confirm their Doctrine by Miracles, healing the lame, the blind, the sick, casting out Devils, raising the dead, and conquering the resistance of Principalities, and Powers, in seeming weakness, and in a contemptible garb. Not to speak now of the Sanctifying Work of the same Spirit, on them, and on the rest of the Church.