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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.
III. The last part of the Direction yet remains, viz. that you must close with Christ entirely, as well as Understandingly and Heartily. It is whole Christ, that must be received with the whole heart.
III. The last part of the Direction yet remains, viz. that you must cl•se with Christ entirely, as well as Vnderstandingly and Heartily. It is whole Christ, that must be received with the whole heart.
For the understanding of this, it must be known, both How and Why Christ is offered to us.
As he came into the world to destroy the works of the Devil, 1 Joh. 3. 8 and to seek and save that which was lost, Luke 19. 19 And by his Mediation to reconcile us to God, and bring us up to Glory; so two things were to be done, for the accomplishment of this: First he was himself to Merit our Salvation, and ⟨p. 284⟩pay the price of our Redemption on the Cross, and in his own Person to conquer the world, the Devil, and death, and the grave: And then he was by his Intercession in the Heavens, to make application of this, and bestow the benefits thus purchased by him. And because it was he, and not we that made the purchase, it therefore pleased the Father, that the purchased treasure should be put into his hands, and not immediately put into ours. He is become our Treasury, and authorized to be our Head: All Power is given him in Heaven, and Earth. We have so foully miscarried already, that he will no more trust his honour in our hands, as at first he did. We shall have nothing, of Pardon, or Grace, or Glory, but what we have in and from the Sonne. God hath given us Eternal Life, and this Life is in his Son: He that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, hath not Life, 1 Joh. 11. 12. It is not only the Nature, and Person of Christ, that is to be believed in, but it is the Person, as empowered to certain ends, and clothed with his Office, yet we must now entertain. Now the Office of Christ being for our