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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 7
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.
O Sirs, if you would be good husbands, and provident indeed for your Souls, see that your hearts prove not false to you in this, and make no secret ⟨p. 321⟩reserves for your selves, but that God have your selves first, and all things with your selves; as Christ first gives himself to you, and all things with himself, Rom. 8. 32. Never think your hearts right, but when they can readily say, We are not our own, 1 Cor. 6. 19. Think not that you come aright to God in any duty, if you do not heartily devote your selves to him, and entreat him to accept you, as wholly his, who neither are, nor desire to be your own: and entreat him accordingly to use you for himself. Say not that any thing is your Own that you possess, Acts 4. 32. In respect to God, and a Communion of Charity, though it be your own (as a Talent that God doth intrust you with) in respect of men, by a Legal Propriety.
O Sirs, if you would be good husbands, and provident indeed for your Souls, see that your hearts prove not false to you in this, and make no secret ⟨p. 321⟩reserves for your selves, but that God have your selves first, and all things with your selves; as Christ first gives himself to you, and all things with himselfe, Rom. 8. 32. Never think your hearts right, but when they can readily say, We are not our own, 1 Cor. 6. 19. Think not that you come aright to God in any duty, if you do not heartily devote your selves to him, and intreat him to accept you, as wholly his, who neither are, nor desire to be your own: and intreat him accordingly to use you for himself. Say not that any thing is your Own that you possess, Acts 4. 32. In respect to God, and a Communion of Charity, though it be your owne (as a Talent that God doth intrust you with) in respect of men, by a Legal Propriety.