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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.
5. And hereupon it doth immediately follow, that we have a right to the blessed Inheritance of his Sons, and are certain Heirs of his Heavenly Kingdom, Col. 1. 12. For if Sons, then Heirs, Heirs of God, and Joint Heirs with Christ, Rom. 8. 17. Being saved by the washing of Regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, and justified by Grace through Christ, we are made Heirs, according to the hope of Eternal Life, ⟨p. 252⟩Tit. 3. 5, 6, 7. Being begotten again to a lively hope, by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an Inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for us, 1 Pet. 1. 3, 4.
5. And hereupon it doth immediatly follow, that we have a right to the blessed Inheritance of his Sonnes, and are certain Heirs of his Heavenly Kingdom, Col. 1. 12. For if Sonnes, then Heirs, Heirs of God, and Joint Heirs with Christ, Rom. 8. 17. Being saved by the washing of Regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, and justified by Grace through Christ, we are made Heirs, according to the hope of Eternal Life, ⟨p. 252⟩Tit. 3. 5, 6, 7. Being begotten againe to a lively hope, by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an Inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for us, 1 Pet. 1. 3, 4.