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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.
Besides which there are others that the Elect only do receive. As 1. God is pleased by effectual Grace, to draw them to his Son, and make the Gospel successful to their Conversion, insuperably teaching, and charging them by his Spirit, and causing them to Repent, and believe in Christ, and to perform the Conditions of his forementioned Promises. That Love that brought the Lord on Earth, that clotheth him with flesh, that lifted him up upon the Cross, doth stream forth in his season into the hearts of his Elect, and toucheth them with a changing Power, and winneth them to his Father, and himself, and droppeth into them those Heavenly Principles, which will grow up in them to Everlasting Life.
Besides which there are others that the Elect only do receive. As 1. God is pleased by effectual Grace, to draw them to his Sonne, and make the Gospel succesfull to their Conversion, insuperably teaching, and charging them by his Spirit, and causing them to Repent, and believe in Christ, and to perform the Conditions of his forementioned Promises. That Love that brought the Lord on Earth, that cloatheth him with flesh, that lifted him up upon the Cross, doth stream forth in his season into the hearts of his Elect, and toucheth them with a changing Power, and winneth them to his Father, and himself, and droppeth into them those Heavenly Principles, which will grow up in them to Everlasting Life.
2. Hereupon the Soul believing in Christ is United to him, as a Member of his Body, even of his true Catholic ⟨p. 248⟩Church; and Christ is become the Head, the Husband, the Lord, the Saviour of that Soul in a special sort. Christ himself is first given to us in these Relations; and from him as our Head, his following benefits are conveyed. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life; for this Life is in the Son, 1 Joh. 5. 11, 12. He is the Vine, and we are the Branches, and out of him we can do nothing,