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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.
10. Another of our precious benefits by Christ is, Our Spiritual Communion with his Church, and holy members. We do not only join with them in outward Communion, but we unite our desires, and there is an harmony of affections. We are in the main of one Mind, and Will, and Way: and we jointly constitute the Body of our Lord: We are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the City of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of Angels, to the general Assembly, and Church of the first born, which are written in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant, Heb. 12. 22, 23, 24. We are joined to that Body, and have Communion with it; which consisteth both of militant, and triumphant Saints, and of the Angels also. We are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow Citizens with the Saints, and of the household of God, and are built on the foundation of ⟨p. 259⟩the Apostles, and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth unto an Holy Temple in the Lord; in whom we also are builded together, for an habitation of God, through the Spirit, Ephes. 2. 19, 20, 21, 22. And as in holy concord we serve the Lord, having one God, one Christ, one Spirit, one Faith, one Baptism, one Rule, the Word of God, one mind, one heart, one work of Holiness, and Righteousness in the main; one hope, one Heaven, the place of our expectations; so have we the fruit of the Prayers of each other, and of all the Church, and have the honour, the safety, and other benefits of being members of so blessed a Society.
10. Another of our precious benefits by Christ is, Our Spiritual Communion with his Church, and holy members. We do not only joyne with them in outward Communion, but we unite our desires, and there is an harmony of affections. We are in the maine of one Mind, and Will, and Way: and we joyntly constitute the Body of our Lord: We are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the City of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of Angels, to the general Assembly, and Church of the first born, which are written in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Cvenant,